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1982 Jun 1 - 1982 Jun 5
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/633
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 22)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 237
Any docs withheld? 1

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82 May 12 We Major Falklands: FCO telegram 92 to UK Embassies and Missions (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands Company") [response to "Argentine propaganda"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 31 Mo Major Falklands: Pym message to UN Secretary-General (1130Z) (UK terms for ceasefire) ["a ceasefire must be inseparably linked to the commencement of the withdrawal of Argentine forces and to the completion of the withdrawal within a fixed period"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 31 Mo Key Falklands: No.10 record of telephone conversation (2230Z) (MT-Reagan) [Reagan urges MT to consider ceasefire; MT refuses: "[MT] had lost valuable British ships and invaluable British lives. She was sure that the President would act in the same way if Alaska had been similarly threatened"] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 899 to FCO (0008Z) ("Falklands: Secretary-General") [Parsons meets with Perez de Cuellar; de Cuellar to make "final attempt" to achieve peace in order to "avert a bloody battle for Port Stanley"] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Brasilia telegram to MODUK (0245Z) ("Libyan Arms for Argentina") [possible supply of Exocet missiles] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0600Z) (0700, 1 June) [UN Secretary-General to make "final attempt" to achieve peace in order to "avert a bloody battle for Port Stanley"] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Cape Town telegram 378 to FCO (0900Z) ("Falklands Arms") [South African response to accusations of SAG supplying arms to Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO ("Falklands: Other Territorial Disputes") [MT requests list of other territorial disputes that could be "exacerbated if Argentina succeeds in its aims" for use in talks with allies at Versailles] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: No.10 letter to FCO (MT's call with Reagan of 31st May) ["Mrs Thatcher felt that, given the relationship between ourselves and the Americans, some advance warning of the nature of the President's message could have been expected"] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: No.10 letter to MOD ("Peruvian Aid to Argentina") [MT has no objection to use of Peruvian resources to help evacuate Argentina wounded from Goose Green] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: FCO letter to No.10 (Falkland Islands Company) [background note and rebuttal of Argentine allegations] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: Prime Minister Fraser of Australia letter to MT (HMS Invicible) [Fraser will understand if UK decides against selling Invicible to Australia] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Tripoli telegram 158 to FCO (1005Z) ("Libya/Argentina") [report of Libya supplying arms to Argentina] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 282 to FCO (1020Z) ("Falkland Islands and the ICRC") [Red Cross would like to observe and assist on hospital ships and with POWs] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKMIS Geneva telegram 284 to FCO (1020Z) ("Falkland Islands: Repatriation of Wounded POWs") [Argentina favours repatriation of POWs via Montevideo] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Montevideo telegram 411 to FCO (1230Z) ("Falkland Islands: Cease Fire") [Uruguay Foreign Minister seeks to arrange ceasefire] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: FCO telegram 1090 to UKE Washington (1330Z) ("Haig's Views on the Falklands") [Pym message to Haig regarding ceasefire negotiations] [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Kathmandu telegram 66 to FCO (1400Z) ("Falklands: Deployment of Gurkhas") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Berne telegram 144 to FCO (1500Z) ("Three British Journalists in Ushuaia") [declassified 2012]
82 Jun 1 Tu Major Falklands: UKE Lima telegram 220 to FCO (1500Z) ("Falklands") [President Belaunde of Peru urges Reagan to organise truce] [declassified 2012]