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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 Tu Key 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 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]
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 5 We Major 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 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: UKE Washington telegram 1599 to FCO (0410Z) ("Falklands") [Haig's new proposals and suggested procedure for peace initiative] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: Haig telegram 1600 to Pym (0415Z) (Haig urges UK compromise and accept US peace proposal) [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: Haig message to EC Foreign Ministers (0418Z) (urges support for UK) [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (5 May 1982, 0730) [US/Peru peace plan, UN Security Council, OAS, HMS Sheffield, Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major 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 We Major 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 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 Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (advice on possible visit of former President Rafael Caldera of Venezuela to MT) [advises that MT receives Caldera] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Chequers meeting of ODSA on 2 May") [Argentine POWs and jamming of BBC Latin American service] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: Hugh Thomas paper for MT ("A Future Settlement in the Falklands Crisis") [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: Pym minute to Nott ("South Africa") [suggested response to possible offer by South Africa of naval and support facilities to UK] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: HMT letter to FCO ("Financial Restrictions on the Argentine") [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major Falklands: Pearson letter to CMR (report from Pearson's contact in Buenos Aires) [Costa Mendez in favour again with "his master" so no longer seeking private line to London] [declassified 2012]
82 May 5 We Major 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 We Major Falklands: UKE Dublin telegram 130 to FCO (1100Z) ("Falklands: Irish Government Attitude") ["slight easing" of Irish position] [declassified 2012]