Archive

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

PREM19/622
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 11)

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

Selections from this file

Showing items 61 - 80 of 88

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Date Value Titlesort ascending
82 Apr 29 Th Major 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 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [killing of Argentine POW on South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: FCO record of telephone conversation (1255Z) (Pym-Haig) [no word yet on whether Argentines will accept US proposals] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Acland-Henderson) ["Mr Haig's negotiations with the Argentines" - state of play] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: FCO minute ("Cuban Missile Crisis: Secretary-General's opinion") [appeal to US and USSR was in fact negotiated with them in advance] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (Valedictory Despatch of HMA, Paris) [MT requested a copy to read] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (mishandling of telegram 1472 from UKE Washington) [explains and apologises for failure to include No.10 in advance delivery, about which MT "quite rightly complained" at OD(SA) that morning] [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 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (1800Z) ("Falklands: Japanese position") [disappointment at Japanese refusal to introduce import ban; MT agrees reply "in rather stiff terms" to PM Suzuki] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("The Commonwealth and the Falkland Islands Dispute: Barbados and Guyana") [draft letters for MT to send their leaders] [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]
82 Apr 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Prisoners captured on South Georgia") [opinion of FCO Legal Adviser] [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 27 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Mrs Gandhi: Falklands") [looking for ways to secure a more supportive response from India] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Minor 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 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Mandatory Resolutions") [information on unimplemented UNSCRs] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("ICRC and the Geneva Convention") [response to No.10 asking what ICRC was doing and whether new Argentine measures on islands breached Fourth Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: debate in Parliament on 29 April") [draft material for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islands: position on medical emergencies") [MT asked about medical arrangements for islanders outside Port Stanley once TEZ enforced] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Th Minor Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falkland Islanders: the Total Exclusion Zone") [reassuring message Pym thinks should be broadcast to islanders this evening by Hunt] [declassified 2012]