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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 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 221 to FCO (1500Z) ("Italian Political Reactions") ["The longer the Falklands dispute goes on, the more difficult it becomes for Italy to give solid support for Britain"; Craxi's Socialist Party "the main problem"] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major 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 Fr Major 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 Fr Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 612 to FCO (1610Z) ("Falkland Islands") [points made by Costa Mendez in meeting President of Security Council] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major 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 Fr Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 613 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Costa Mendez meeting with UN Secretary-General; role of UNSG in crisis, rumours of role for the Aga Khan] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major 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 Fr Major 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 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Santiago telegram 193 to FCO (1742Z) ("Falklands: Peruvian/Argentine military cooperation") [Chlieans told by Argentinians that Peru is loaning Mirage aircraft and pilots to Argentina; perhaps misinformation] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 60 to FCO (1755Z) ("Après Galtieri le deluge?") [speculations as to future in Argentinian politics if Britain recaptures the islands] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major 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 Fr Major Falklands: Foreign Secretary's press conference (evening, before visiting US)
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: Armstrong record of conversation (evening) (Armstrong, Palliser and French Ambassador) [French concern at leak of information that they had been assisting Britain with military information] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major 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 Fr Minor Falklands: UKE Quito telegram 61 to FCO (2107Z) ("Falklands: US Sanction") [Ecuadorean MFA statement criticising US tilt] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: BIS Buenos Aires telegram 61 to FCO (2135Z) ("Press summary") [top news is blockade declared by Argentina in response to British TEZ] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1543 to FCO (2144Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [prominent reporting of Senate resolution] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 144 to FCO (2220Z) ("Falklands: United Nations Involvement") [Brazilians urging Perez De Cuellar to involve himself now Haig mediation over; US tilt towards UK not a problem between Brazil and US] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 614 to FCO (2251Z) ("Falkland Islands") [record of conversation with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 615 to FCO (2253Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Costa Mendez press conference following his meeting with UN Secretary-General] [declassified 2012]