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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1126
Saudi Arabia (Saudi/UK relations; internal situation) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 342
Any docs withheld? 7

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80 May 1 Thu Saudi Arabia: FCO record of conversation (Lord Carrington, Arab League ambassadors) [UK/Saudi relations following screening of 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary; concerns about wider bias against Arab states in UK media; current tensions in Middle East] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 7 Wed Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Adolfo Suarez) [extract - EC; Middle East; UK/Saudi relations following controversy over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 8 Thu Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Saudi relations") [fallout from the screening of 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 8 Thu Saudi Arabia: FCO letter to No.10 (Muslim reactions internationally to ATV drama-documentary 'Death of a Princess') [proposed standard reply] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 14 Wed Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo/Saudi relations") [fallout from the screening internationally of 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary: UK; Netherlands; US & France] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 16 Fri Saudi Arabia: FCO letter to No.10 ("Saudi Arabia") ["recent showing here of the television film "Death of a Princess" has had a very damaging effect... [including] banishment... of our Ambassador, James Craig... [his] enclosed Despatch... [has] some perceptive insights"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 22 Thu Saudi Arabia: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Saudi relations") [Ambassador Urwick record of conversation with King Hussein: controversy over ITV drama-documentary 'Death of a Princess'] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 27 Tue Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Saudi relations") [Saudi press reaction to Lord Carrington speech addressing diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 27 Tue Saudi Arabia: Crown Prince Fahd message to MT ("Anglo-Saudi relations") [reply to MT letter expressing regret at the transmission of ITV drama-documentary 'Death of a Princess': "the issue is not confined to the subject of this film alone"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 28 Wed Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Lord Carrington, Jordanian ambassador) [extract on "Other Middle East problems"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 May 29 Thu Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Saudi trade") [British-Saudi Arabian Parliamentary Friendship Group statement following diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jun 2 Mon Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Anglo-Saudi relations") [Prince Fahd letter of 'rebuke' for UK screening of 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jun 10 Tue Saudi Arabia: Prince Saud message to Lord Carrington (Palestine) ["importance of the support of the E.E.C."] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jun 20 Fri Saudi Arabia: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("Saudi/FRG and UK/Saudi relations") ["Schmidt's talk with Khalid"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jun 24 Tue Saudi Arabia: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Hussein, Prime Minister Sharaf, John Moberly) [extract regarding UK diplomatic rift with Saudis over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 10 Thu Saudi Arabia: FCO telegram to UKE Jedda ("Anglo-Saudi relations") [Lord Carrington message to be conveyed to Prince Saud suggesting a visit to heal the diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 28 Mon Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Mr Hurd's visit") ["text of Mr Hurd's statement to the Saudi press": 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary: "I came here personally to underline... [our] regret at the understandable offence caused"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Jul 28 Mon Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("Visit of Mr Hurd") [Hurd, Prince Saud al Faisal: record of discussion; diplomatic rift over 'Death of a Princess' drama-documentary] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Aug 12 Tue Saudi Arabia: FCO telegram to UKE Luxembourg ("IMF/IBRD and the PLO") [International Bank for Reconstruction & Development: vote on resolution to prevent PLO becoming observers: "a change of position would dismay the Americans"] [declassified Aug 2013]
80 Aug 19 Tue Saudi Arabia: UKE Jedda telegram to FCO ("PLO observer status at IBRD: Saudi attitudes") [International Bank for Reconstruction & Development: "frozen loan... anger at what they see as an abuse of IBRD procedures for political ends"] [declassified Aug 2013]