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1983 Dec 4 - 1983 Dec 30
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1077
Lebanon (Internal situation; Multinational Force (MNF) in Lebanon; UK/Lebanese relations) (Part 5B)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 234
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83 Dec 4 Sun Lebanon: Heseltine message to MT (US air raids on Syrian military targets) [update & advice on UK response] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Soviet press conference: Middle East") [comment on US/Israeli intervention] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("US/Syria") [Luce comments to media regarding US military action] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [Richard Luce, Walid Jumblatt: record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: UKE Beirut telegram to FCO ("Firing at BritForLeb") [speculation & press comment] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Athens ("Lebanon") [Parsons minute outlining concerns about US policy & advising MT to contact Reagan directly] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles (Multinational Force: withdrawal of British contingent) [Rifkind answer to Draft Notice Question in Commons; "mood in the House... strongly critical of American policy"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 5 Mon Lebanon: President Assad letter to MT (US/Israeli intervention in the Lebanon) ["a threat to peace and security... in the world at large"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tue Lebanon: UKMIS New York telegram 1530 to FCO (0040Z) ("Lebanon: US action") [text of UN Secretary General's statement] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tue Lebanon: No.10 minute (internal) to Coles ("Lebanon") [Parsons: case against withdrawal of Multinational Force's UK contingent] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 6 Tue Lebanon: No.10 (partial) record of conversation (MT, Mitterrand) ["Lebanon": concerns about US policy; role of the UN] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 7 Wed Lebanon: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: Italian views") [text of press comminque following inner cabinet meeting] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 7 Wed Lebanon: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("US Middle East policy") [UK ambassador, King Hussein: record of conversation: Hussein "in [despair] with the Americans following the recent agreement with Israel"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Thu Lebanon: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Lebanon") [Druze community representations] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Thu Lebanon: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Lebanon: MNF Foreign Ministers meeting, 8 December") [record of conversation] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Thu Lebanon: Ministry of Defence note to No.10 (Chief of Defence Staff: official visits to Middle East) [forthcoming schedule] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 8 Thu Lebanon: FCO telegram to UKE Beirut ("Lebanon/MNF") [Howe, Luce, Rumsfeld: record of conversation: 7th December] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fri Lebanon: UKDel NATO telegram to FCO ("Lebanon MNF") [review of the role of the Multinational Force] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Dec 9 Fri Lebanon: Heseltine minute to Howe (Hunter aircraft for the Lebanese airforce) ["I believe that we must remain firm in declining to sell"] [declassified Aug 2013]