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1980 May 6 - 1982 Dec 24
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/758
Foreign policy (Third United Nations Law of the Sea Conference; extension of the UK territorial sea)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 322
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80 May 6 Tu Major Law of the Sea: Howell letter to Carrington (“Third UN Law of the Sea Conference (UNLOSC)”) [declassified 2012]
80 Jul 1 Tu Major Law of the Sea: Cabinet Office briefing to MT (“United Nations Law of the Sea Conference (UNLOSC) and the extension of the United Kingdom territorial sea”) [declassified 2012]
81 May 28 Th Major Law of the Sea: Wade-Gery minute to No.10 (“Announcement of the Government’s decision to extend the United Kingdom Territorial Sea”) [“risk of… seriously upsetting the Americans is small enough to be acceptable”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 17 We Major Law of the Sea: Aims of Industry letter to Hurd (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“United States are very concerned”] [declassified 2012]
82 Feb 24 We Major Law of the Sea: No.10 letter to British-North American Research Association (“UNLOSC” UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“campaign… to press the British Government to support the… US”] [declassified 2012]
82 Mar 1 Mo Major Law of the Sea: MT letter to President Reagan (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“we would consider any arrangement which excluded the United States as seriously defective”] [declassified 2012]
82 Apr 30 Fr Major Law of the Sea: FCO letter to No.10 (“UNLOSC” UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“very important that [we] act together”] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 10 Su Major Law of the Sea: President Reagan letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“I believe… we are capable now… of allied cohesion unparalleled in the past generation”] [declassified 2012]
82 Oct 25 Mo Major Law of the Sea: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Donald Rumsfield: UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“little point in Britain signing the treaty if the United States does not”] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 10 Fr Major Law of the Sea: MT letter to Prime Minister of New Zealand (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“we find unacceptable the deep sea mining provisions”] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 14 Tu Major Law of the Sea: MT letter to Admiral Irving (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“the sea bed mining provisions are not acceptable”] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 22 We Major Law of the Sea: No.10 letter to MoD (“UNLOSC”, UN Law of the Sea Convention) [MT disagreement with Nott] [declassified 2012]
82 Dec 24 Fr Major Law of the Sea: No.10 letter to FCO (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [“failure of consensus due to the deep sea mining provisions”] [declassified 2012]