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 |
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Selections from this file
Showing items 61 - 80 of 88
| Date |
Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 82 Apr 6 Tu | Major | Falklands: No.10 briefing for MT ("Illegal Landing on South Georgia: Chronology of Events") [19 March - 5 April] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: Pattison minute for Coles (Labour claim that UN Secretary-General had issued an 'appeal') [suggests MT write to Foot setting record straight] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: Pattison minute for MT (Labour claim that UN Secretary-General had issued an 'appeal') [attaches Foot's reply to her letter setting record straight] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: Pym minute to MT ("Maritime Rules of Engagement") [content with Nott proposal to change ROEs regarding conventional submarines] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1471 to FCO (0455Z) ("Falklands") [Haig told he could not go to Buenos Aires but could deliver his proposals via USE] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1473 to FCO (1220Z) ("Falklands") [Haig says US Ambassador to Argentina en route to hand US proposals to Galtieri] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1474 to FCO (1642Z) ("Falklands - Personal to Secretary of Defence") [conversation with Weinberger - he and President delighted at South Georgia operation; considering further US help to UK if talks break down because of Argentinian intransigence] [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 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 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 179 to FCO (2130Z) ("Falklands: press allegations about Chilean/UK military cooperation") [story in Daily Star, perhaps being "fed Argentinian disinformation ... to tarnish the current Chilean neutral stance"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Death of Argentinian prisoner") [shooting on South Georgia - British obligations under Third Geneva Convention] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 Apr 27 Tu | Major | Falklands: MT to Admiral Fieldhouse (thanks for visit to Northolt) ["invaluable briefing ... warm thanks to all your staff whose efficiency and control of the situation did not surprise but much impressed me"] [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 | 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 24 Sa | Major | Falklands: FCO telegram 64 to UKHC Ottawa and others (1122Z) ("Commonwealth and Falkland Islands") [Prime Ministerial thanks for support] [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 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: 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 | 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: FCO letter to No.10 ("Beagle Channel") [background note on Argentina-Chile dispute over the channel, as requested by No.10] [declassified 2012] |