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1983 Jan 12 - 1984 Dec 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1238
Foreign policy (United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNLOSC)) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 257
Any docs withheld? No

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83 Jan 18 Tue Foreign Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Law of the Sea") [reciprocating agreement on deepsea mining] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 17 Thu Foreign Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Law of the Sea: Merchant Shipping") [Reciprocating States Agreement; deepsea mining; risk to UK of not signing up to Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 18 Fri Foreign Policy: Caroline Stephens to Coles & Ingham (Il Geornale newspaper article about the Prime Minister) [useful for Fanfani visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 22 Tue Foreign Policy: Pym minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [case for participation in the Preparatory Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 23 Wed Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("UK Law of the Sea Convention") [Reciprocating States Agreement; MT request for tutorial] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 3 Thu Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [participation in preparatory commission; negotiating tactics; Reciprocating States Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 3 Thu Foreign Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [comments on Pym minute of 22 Feb; "we need to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep sea mining regime... changes will, at best, be a long process"; financial implications for UK of US non-participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 13 Tue Foreign Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["urge that the Federal Republic should not take a decision in favour of signature... so long as the difficulties of the mining regime remain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fri Foreign Policy: Ridley PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Ministerial Group on Maritime Affairs") [reconstitution; forthcoming business; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 29 Thu Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Provisional Understanding regarding Deep Seabed matters") ["Mr Rifkind.. would not recommend that the... [UK] should sign with the... [US] alone without further consideration of where the balance of advantage lies"; MT approves this approach] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 20 Mon Foreign Policy: UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuellar letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["Signature of the Convention does not prejudge a future decision on its ratification"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 24 Wed Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fri Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["You urged that the UK should sign... and draw attention to the advantages offered by it in areas other than seabed mining"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fri Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["it is only by signing... and participating fully in the work of the Preparatory Commission that Western countries will able to continue to influence the development of the Law of the Sea"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mon Foreign Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [notes the risks of signing, but endorses FCO advice to do so; MT rejects advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mon Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") ["Signing the Convention does not imply acceptance of the seabed regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mon Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Future Options") ["the question is whether... [UK] interests would be better served... inside the Convention process as a signatory, or outside it as a non-signatory"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tue Foreign Policy: No.10 note to MT ("UNLOSC") [UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; MT notes she is strongly opposed to signing] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mon Foreign Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["probably the most significant achievement of the... [UN] in recent years and one which should not be diminshed by lack of support"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 14 Wed Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["I believe we must strenuously urge the FRG, Italy and Belgium not to sign... signature... will undermine our ability to negotiate a seabed mining regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]