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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 30 Fr Major 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 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Mexico City telegram 337 to FCO (2230Z) ("Meeting with Mexican President") [Lopez Portillo "anxious to help in any way but did not want to cut across the refforts of others"; "hard to be optimistic" about Haig talks; invasion launched by Junta "to distract attention from their failures at home"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Key Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1517 to FCO (2148Z) ("Falklands") [Eagleburger giving Henderson a copy of Costa Mendez letter to Haig; text of letter] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1511 to FCO (1948Z) ("Falklands") [further talk with Haig - he is not thinking of publishing US proposals because sees it would be difficult for HMG; wording of US statement on breakdown of negotiations] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 601 to FCO (1946Z) ("Further notification to Argentina") [draft response to Argentine claim Britain could not enforce TEZ under Article 51] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major 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 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1510 to FCO (1647Z) ("Falklands") ["easier for US to come down emphatically on our side if they can leave no doubt that the blame for the breakdown of the negotiations lay exclusively with the Argentinians"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1509 to FCO (1625Z) ("Falklands") [Haig to make statement conveying "a tone of sorrow more than anger" at intransigence of Argentine Government] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram to FCO (1615Z) ("Russian offers to Argentina") [press reports Soviets offered Argentina assistance across the board, including military] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor 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 Th Minor Falklands: Governor of Gibraltar telegram 27 to FCO (1430Z) ("Falkland Islands") [resolution of support from Gibraltar House of Assembly] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram 868 to Haig (1430Z) ("Falklands") [Cabinet consider Argentines to have rejected US proposals; Pym urges US Administration to adopt same position] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 384 to FCO (1430Z) ("German reporting on Argentina") [telegrams from Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: MT letter to President Reagan (1322Z) (Cabinet response to Haig's latest proposals) [deadline has passed without word from Argentina; "the proposals must now be regarded as having been rejected by the Argentines"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO telegram 871 to UKE Washington (1200Z) ("Argentina: import ban") [EC import ban hard to sustain if US does not follow suit if it tilts to UK, but do not hint of doubt on this score] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: Lord Privy Seal PS letter to No.10 (Falklands debate) [draft of Lady Young's speech as at 1300] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (draft statement if Haig proposals fail) [suitable for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Major 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 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Role of the UN Secretary-General") [MT asked for a note on UNSG role; Article 99 of Charter; "good offices"] [declassified 2012]