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1982 Apr 27 - 1982 Apr 29
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/622
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 11)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 288
Any docs withheld? 3

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82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Beagle Channel") [background note on Argentina-Chile dispute over the channel, as requested by No.10] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders") [official review of islander morale and arrangements for those wanting to leave temporarily] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (draft statement if Haig proposals fail) [suitable for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Nuclear cooperation between Germany and Argentina") [MT approves draft PMQ Q&A stating nothing in the story] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [Reports from Haig; OAS/UN; TEZ; Chile; Uruguay; Australia; NATO; US opinion poll; BAS personnel; Falkland evacuation; South Georgia; British aircraft] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1725Z) (MT-Chancellor Schmidt phone call) [unchanged German support for British position, and for a political solution; farm prices] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 606 to FCO (0046Z) ("Falkland Islands at the UN") [Security Council has "atmosphere of great tension and expectation eg of a dramatic military move by us any day now"; danger of diplomatic vacuum when Haig talks end] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 26 Mon Falklands: UKE Holy See telegram 21 to FCO (1515Z) ("Falklands: military operations") [conversation with Monsignor Silvestrini] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1486 to FCO (2304Z) ("Argentina: Arms Supplies") [reports of US sale of Skyhawk engines to Argentina; US Customs blocked shipment for refurbishment in Italy] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKMIS New York fax to FCO (draft reply to Non-Aligned Movement) [historical justification of British claim] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 175 to FCO (0116Z) ("Falkland Islands") [supportive statement issued by Australian Government] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tue Falklands: Coles letter to Ted Needham (Falkland Islanders) [thanks for information; policy on financial assistance for those wishing to leave temporarily] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1504 to FCO (2320Z) ("Argentina: Arms Supplies") [follow up to reports of US sale of Skyhawk engines to Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: FCO telegram 186 to UKE Montevideo (1800Z) ("Falkland Islands: help for islanders") [ask Uruguayan government if it would be willing in principle to help islanders] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (Valedictory Despatch of HMA, Paris) [MT requested a copy to read] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Message of thanks from the Prime Minister to President Moi of Kenya") [MT agreed to send personal thanks to Moi] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands") [suggested insert for MT speech tomorrow] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: MT letter to Sultan Qaboos bin Sa'id of Oman (thanks for support) ["There are many countries around the world which could suffer the consequences if aggression was rewarded in this case"] [released 2013]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 198 to FCO (1610Z) ("Falkland Islands and ICRC") [ICRC seeks information on personnel at South Georgia; plans to visit Falklands] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 384 to FCO (1430Z) ("German reporting on Argentina") [telegrams from Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]