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1980 Apr 1 - 1982 May 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/959
Belize (Future of Belize) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 252
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81 Jul 17 Fri Belize: Armstrong minute to Alexander ("Belize/Guatemala (OD(81) 38)") [declassified 2013]
81 Jul 22 Wed Belize: FCO letter to No.10 ("Belize: Defence Arrangements") [outcome of Ridley/Price meeting on defence] [declassified 2013]
81 Jul 31 Fri Belize: FCO to UKE Guatemala City ("Belize/Guatemala: Possible Resumption of Negotiations") ["We suspect the Guatemalans may...be responding to US pressure and that their main concern may be to put themselves in the most favourable light for the UN General Assembly"] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 4 Tue Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Defence Guarantee") [Price message to Ridley on Belize-Guatemala negotiations; "Price is evidently still having trouble with his inner Cabinet"] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 4 Tue Belize: Nick Ridley message to Premier Price of Belize ("Belize: Security Situation") [response to Price's concerns about security arrangements for Belize after independence] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 4 Tue Belize: UKE Washington telegram 2324 to FCO (1635Z) ("Belize/Guatemala: Possible Resumption of Negotiations") [US views] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 5 Wed Belize: UKE Panama City to FCO ("Visit of Premier of Belize") [Price speaks with Thomas Enders: "Price...claims that Enders said that he thought the British were trying to rid themselves of the Belize problem too quickly"] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 7 Fri Belize: FCO to Governor Belmopan ("Aranda") [Belizean Opposition politicians meet with Nick Ridley: "They started by demanding that there should be a referendum or other test of public opinion in Belize before independence"] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 25 Tue Belize: FCO to UKE Kingston ("Belize/Guatemala") [Belize defence arrangements: planned joint declaration from sympathetic governments] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 26 Wed Belize: UKE Guatemala City to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Castillo Valdez message to Nick Ridley: "My guess is that the Foreign Minister is now less interested in the renewal of negotiations than he was, and that the message has only been delivered now because of American pressure"] [declassified 2013]
81 Aug 27 Thu Belize: Governor Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [Premier Price receives message from US; US pressuring Guatemala to resume talks] [declassified 2013]
81 Sep 21 Mon Belize: MT letter to Prime Minister Price of Belize (congratulations on Belizean independence) [declassified 2013]
81 Sep 22 Tue Belize: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (thanks for message of congratulations on Belizean independence) [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 24 Thu Belize: UKE Washington telegram 3933 to FCO (2330Z) ("Belize/Guatemala") [US report on Guatemalan position in territorial negotiations] [declassified 2013]
81 Dec 28 Mon Belize: UK High Commission Belmopan to FCO ("Belize/Guatemala") [meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Rogers: "He told me he was less sanguine than Price about the prospect for a treaty based on the American texts"] [declassified 2013]
82 Feb 9 Tue Commonwealth: Prime Minister Price of Belize letter to MT (Belize's constitutional negotiations with Guatemala) [requests that British Garrison remains in Belize until a settlement is reached] [released 2013]
82 Mar 31 Wed Belize: Armstrong briefing for MT ("OD: Belize: Withdrawal of the Garrison") [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 9 Fri Belize: Pym minute to MT ("Belize: British Garrison") ["politically impossible" to withdraw garrison; US want garrison to remain; MT: "We are expected to take decisions to support [the US]. I hope this expectation will be fully reciprocated"] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 11 Sun Belize: No.10 letter to FCO ("Belize: British Garrison") [MT's views on decision to retain British Garrison: "she hopes that we shall use this decision with the Americans"] [declassified 2013]
82 Apr 14 Wed Belize: UKE Caracas telegram 103 to FCO (1900Z) ("The Falkland Islands") [Venezuela reports "that the new Guatemalan Government...were considering moving against Belize"] [declassified 2013]