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1982 Apr 30 - 1982 May 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/623
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 231
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82 Apr 24 Sat Falklands: FCO minute (Commonwealth reactions to Argentinian invasion) [detail of statements and actions by Commonwealth governments] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 26 Mon Falklands: UK Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British recapture of South Georgia) [Britain acting in self-defence under Article 51]
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 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1525 to FCO (0423Z) ("Falklands") [text of draft statement to be issued by Haig] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: Haig telegram 1526 to Pym (0426Z) ('Falklands') [Argentina rejecting US proposals; Britain negotiating in good faith; US statement not possible before Friday] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1524 to FCO (0415Z) ('Falklands') [Renwick meeting with Eagleburger before NSC; draft Haig statement] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1527 to FCO (0418Z) ('Falklands' - US tilt) ["I hope you will agree this puts the Americans squarely on our side. We can discuss imports later"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1528 to FCO (0545Z) ("Falklands/Congress") [Senate resolution supportive of UK position passed 79:1, Helms dissenting (29 Apr); Biden, Moynihan and Percy sponsoring] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1532 to FCO (1459Z) ("Argentine debt") [visit of Argentine Economic Minister to Washington; deteriorating position; possible problems for Brazil, Chile also] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1534 to FCO (1537Z) ('Falklands') ["Haig is happy that you should come here this weekend"; come first to Washington, to discuss how to handle UN] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1533 to FCO (1605Z) ("Falklands: Haig's statement") [text of statement made by Haig at 1530] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1536 to FCO (1657Z) ('Falklands' - Haig's statement") [Haig said not "plain-sailing to get it through NSC"; Kirkpatrick a source of trouble] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1537 to FCO (1737Z) ("Argentina: US measures") [US "still baulking" at import ban, pleading legal and administrative problems "but the real difficulties are clearly political"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1538 to FCO (1738Z) ("Argentina: US measures") ["it is a question of a political decision which can only be taken at the highest level"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1539 to FCO (1808Z) ("Falklands: President Reagan") [text of his remarks - "the aggression was on the part of Argentina ... that little ice-cold bunch of land down there"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1540 to FCO (1900Z) ("Argentine debt") [Argentine Economic Minister in Washington - read-out from US Treasury suggests mixed picture] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1543 to FCO (2144Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [prominent reporting of Senate resolution] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1549 to FCO (2318Z) ("Falklands") [comment on Costa Mendez at UN; Haig still hopes to play a negotiating role] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1548 to FCO (2318Z) ("Falklands") [further public comment by Reagan, on aid to British and diplomacy] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fri Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1550 to FCO (2322Z) ("Falklands: Nuclear Weapons") [US press reports Task Force armed with tactical nuclear weapons and that commander had authority to use them] [declassified 2012]