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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Selections from this file
Showing items 41 - 60 of 99
| Date | Value |
Title |
|---|---|---|
| 82 May 5 We | Major | Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (morning) (MT-Prime Minister Fraser of Australia) [loss of HMS Sheffield; US/Peru peace proposals] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 5 We | Key | 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 We | Major | Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper (1600Z) ("Sinking of the General Belgrano") [line to take] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 3 Mo | Major | Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) Paper (1600Z) (lines to take on military action and Pym's visit to Washington) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 3 Mo | Major | Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit (SAPU) paper - SAPU(82) 14 (transcript of Nott's press conference) [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 5 We | Major | Falklands: UKE Berne telegram 67 to FCO (1442Z) ("Economic Roundup") [report on Argentine economy from Swiss Embassy in Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Bogota telegram 102 to FCO (2230Z) ("Falklands/OAS") [President Turbay calls for emergency meeting of OAS] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Major | 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 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 400 to FCO (1820Z) ("Falklands") [State Secretary Von Staden expressing strong German concern about sinking of General Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 5 We | Major | 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 6 Th | Major | Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram 158 to FCO (2005Z) ("Defence Sales to South America") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Major | 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 3 Mo | Major | Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 120 to FCO (0915Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Statement") [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Major | 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 Tu | Major | 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 Tu | Major | 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 5 We | Major | Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 130 to FCO (1100Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitude") ["slight easing" of Irish position] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 3 Mo | Major | Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 137 to FCO (0103Z) ("Falklands") [Foreign Minister outlines further peace initiative] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 3 Mo | Major | Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 138 to FCO (0118Z) (Peruvian peace proposals) [MT's annotation: "Not enough"] [declassified 2012] |
| 82 May 4 Tu | Major | Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 145 to FCO (2100Z) ("Falklands") [Peruvian Foreign Minister expresses "shock and consternation" at sinking of the Belgrano] [declassified 2012] |