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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 4 Tue Falklands: UKHC Ottawa to FCO ("Falkland Islands") [Canadian position on Falklands sovereignty] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: Warr note of Parsons telephone call (1000Z) ("General Belgrano: Sir Anthony Parsons") [Parsons seeks information on the fate of the Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 4 Tue Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 145 to FCO (2100Z) ("Falklands") [Peruvian Foreign Minister expresses "shock and consternation" at sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: Reagan letter to MT (0204Z) (Reagan urges MT to consider new US peace proposals) [need to seize chance for a peaceful settlement "before more lives are lost"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: Haig telegram 1600 to Pym (0415Z) (Haig urges UK compromise and accept US peace proposal) [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: MT letter to Reagan (2030Z) (MT expresses serious concerns about US/Peruvian peace proposals; proposes amendments) ["I am writing to you...because I think you are the only person who will understand the significance of what I am trying to say"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 652 to FCO (0044Z) ("Falkland Islands: Security Council") [Irish decision to mobilise the Security Council causes "consternation"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1599 to FCO (0410Z) ("Falklands") [Haig's new proposals and suggested procedure for peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKHC Canberra telegram 200 to FCO (0634Z) ("Falkland Islands: Australian Prime Minister") [Malcolm Fraser question and answer in Austrialian Parliament] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (5 May 1982, 0730) [US/Peru peace plan, UN Security Council, OAS, HMS Sheffield, Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Tel Aviv telegram to MODUK (0835Z) ("Israeli Weapons in the Falklands") [Israeli Aircraft Industries Marketing Director apologises for use of one of his company's products in sinking of HMS Sheffield] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Muscat telegram 142 to FCO (0928Z) ("Falkland Islands") [Sultan of Oman confirms support for UK; expresses concerns over US attitude] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 130 to FCO (1100Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitude") ["slight easing" of Irish position] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: FCO telegram 217 to UKE Paris (1430Z) (messages from Pym to EC and some other nations) [message to Dublin expresses dismay] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 147 to FCO (1440Z) ("Falklands") [Peruvian peace proposal] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Berne telegram 67 to FCO (1442Z) ("Economic Roundup") [report on Argentine economy from Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 214 to FCO (1505Z) ("Falkland Islands/ICRC") [Argentine POWs on South Georgia] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: FCO telegram 920 to UKE Washington (1600Z) ("Repatriation of POWs") [possible plans of action] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 408 to FCO (1640Z) ("FRG Attitude to the Falklands Crisis") ["Support for the UK here has taken a severe knock in the last 48 hours"; Schmidt and Genscher believe military conflict "out of proportion" with original aggression; FRG cabinet announced dismay and urgently appealed for ceasefire and negotiation] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 Wed Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 425 to FCO (1725Z) ("Argentina: Import Ban") [French position "shifting somewhat" following events of recent days; they still support "basic UK position" but require UK to offer "convincing gesture" in favour of negotiated solution] [declassified 2012]