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1982 May 3 - 1982 May 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/624
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 303
Any docs withheld? 1

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82 May 3 Mon Falklands: MOD letter to No.10 ("Argentine Aircraft - Laser Equipment") [declassified 2012]
82 May 3 Mon Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 237 to FCO (Parsons telegram from UKE - Spain reported to have offered mediation assistance to Argentina) [declassified 2012]
82 May 3 Mon Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit note (1940Z) ("General Belgrano: Argentinian Communique No.16") [Belgrano "presumed to have sunk"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 3 Mon Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 137 to FCO (0103Z) ("Falklands") [Foreign Minister outlines further peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
82 May 3 Mon Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 138 to FCO (0118Z) (Peruvian peace proposals) [MT's annotation: "Not enough"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2036Z) (MT proposes US enact complete ban on imports from Argentina to US) ["with so many young lives at risk - British and Argentine - I feel that we must make a supreme effort to prevent a major military clash"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: FCO to No.10 ("Falklands: Idea for a new Diplomatic Move") [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: Weston minute to Wright of 41st Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (1100Z) ("Chiefs of Staff Committee: 4 May") [Chiefs of Staff give information on the sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1581 to FCO (0035Z) ("Falklands") [Haig's hopes for Peruvian Peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 643 to FCO (0135Z) ("Falkland Islands: Security Council") [strategy for dealing with UN Secretary-General's aide memoire] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (4 May 1982, 0730) [Pym's movements, Haig's peace plea, UN, Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Tel Aviv to MODUK (0800Z) (report of Israeli arms sales to Argentina) [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 242 to FCO (1020Z) ("Spanish Position on the Falklands") [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 124 to FCO (1330Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Statement") [Irish Government "appalled by the outbreak of what amounts to open war between Argentina and Great Britain"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 125 to FCO (1335Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitude") ["news of the sinking of the Belgrano...has been very criticially received in the Republic"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Brussels telegram 158 to FCO (1545Z) ("Falklands: Belgian Attitude") ["Both King Baudouin and the Belgian Foreign Minister were positive in their support for British policy"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 397 to FCO (1645Z) ("Falklands: German Public Statements") ["The sinking of the Belgrano has produced a rash of statements today in Bonn"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 128 to FCO (1710Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitude") [Taoiseach Haughey statement to the Dail: Ireland to seek withdrawal of sanctions against Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 417 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands") [French and Dutch Government responses to sinking of the Belgrano - "extreme concern" of both ministers, Dutch called it "a dreadful incident"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1589 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands") [Haig reports "extremely discouraging" reaction from Peru and Argentina] [declassified 2012]