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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 28 Wed Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: debate in Parliament on 29 April") [draft material for MT speech] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Mandatory Resolutions") [information on unimplemented UNSCRs] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed 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 28 Wed Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (Overnight Developments) [US; OAS meeting; Falkland evacuation; South Georgia; Brazil; British shipping] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: President of Organisation of American States telegram to MT (1900Z) ("Serious situation in the South Atlantic") [resolution of support for Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 10 (1700Z) (Haig's proposals; TEZ; death of Argentinian POW; international opinion; statement by UNSG) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Death of an Argentinian prisoner") [further details about shooting on South Georgia - misunderstanding the cause; to be buried with full military honours] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 28 Wed Falklands: Wolfson minute for MT (upcoming speech in Commons) [points stressing oBritish readiness to negotiate] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1506 to FCO (0105Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Henderson requests further clarification from Haig on US position] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu Falklands: President Reagan letter to MT (2218Z) (position of US Administration given Argentina's failure to accept US proposals) [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu 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 Thu Falklands: UKHC New Delhi telegram 431 to FCO (0700Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with Mrs Gandhi - 'unsatisfactory', but she understood British points; will try to maintain some sort of balance between the two sides] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 29 Thu 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]