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PREM19/1148
United Nations (Second Special Session on Disarmament; Prime Minister's visit to New York and Washington, June 1982) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Secret
Page count: 282
Themes: Foreign policy - theory and process, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (arms control), Defence (Falklands), British relations with the US

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Date Value Title
82 Jun 21 Mo Major United Nations: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (0030Z) ("Prime Minister's visit to Washington") [arrangements; programme] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 21 Mo Major United Nations: UKDIS Geneva telegram to FCO ("Prime Minister's visit to UNSSD II") [guests; speakers] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 21 Mo Major United Nations: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("Prime Minister's visit to New York and Washington") [draft programme; briefing] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major United Nations: UKE Washington telegram 12 to FCO (0030Z) ("Prime Minister's visit to Washington") [programme] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major United Nations: Goulding minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's visit: Secretary General's lunch") [guests] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 22 Tu Major United Nations: British Information Services New York minute to Ingham ("Prime Minister's television interviews: Room 2818, UN Plaza") [likely subjects; briefing about the programmes] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 23 We Major United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Perez de Cuéllar, Sir Anthony Parsons, Brian Urquhart) ["Prime Minister's call on the Secretary General of the United Nations": Namibia; Lebanon; Falklands] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 23 We Major United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ismet Kittani, Sir Anthony Parsons) ["Call by the Prime Minister on the President of the General Assembly on Wednesday 23 June": Iran/Iraq war] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 23 We Major United Nations: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Reagan, Bush, Haig, Judge William Clark, Sir Nicholas Henderson) [IRA arms smuggling; US trade sanctions/John Brown company; steel imports from Europe; Falklands war; Lebanon] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 24 Th Major United Nations: UKE Washington telegram 2239 to FCO (0045Z) ("Prime Minister's visit to Washington") [analysis: US intentions in inviting MT; media coverage] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 25 Fr Major United Nations: MT message to President Reagan ("Message to President of the United States") ["effect on John Brown Engineering... of American sanctions against the Soviet Union... could well be forced out of business"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major United Nations: MT letter to Sir Nicholas Henderson (visit to Washington) [thanks for arrangements & for diplomatic efforts; Al Haig resignation] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major United Nations: MT letter to U.N. Secretary General (visit to New York) [thanks for arrangements] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 28 Mo Major United Nations: MT letter to Sir Anthony Parsons (visit to New York to address the UN General Assembly) [thanks; his retirement "will not be entirely uninterrupted by further work"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jun 29 Tu Major United Nations: MT letter to President Reagan (meeting in Washington) ["last three months have been a difficult period... most grateful for all the support... sorry to hear of Al Haig's resignation"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Jul 13 Tu Major United Nations: Pym minute to MT ("Second United Nations Special Session on Disarmament") [summary of proceedings] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Oct 18 Tu Major United Nations: Chancellor of the Exchequer PS letter to No.10 ("UK attitude towards Disarmament at the UNGA") ["the approach we should adopt... a brief account of where matters now stand"] [declassified Aug 2013]