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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1310
Mauritius (Visits to UK by Prime Ministers Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam and Anerood Jugnauth: meetings with Prime Minister)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 348
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Africa), Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), Commonwealth (general), Commonwealth (South Africa), Defence (general), Race, immigration, nationality, British relations with the US

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Date Value Title
80 Jan 19 Sa Major Mauritius: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Prime Minister of Mauritius") [meeting date] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Feb 11 Mo Major Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Teelock) [Mauritian economy/politics; Diego Garcia; Afghanistan; Rhodesia; British Council] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 4 Fr Major Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister of Mauritius") [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 7 Mo Major Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Harold Walter & others) ["Call on the Prime Minister by the President of Mauritius": Diego Garcia; Seychelles; British Council; BBC External Services] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 7 Mo Major Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit by the Prime Minister of Mauritius") [Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Aug 11 Mo Major Mauritius: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Call by the Prime Minister of Mauritius") [Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Sep 18 Th Major Mauritius: MT message to Prime Minister Ramgoolam (birthday greetings) [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Oct 6 Mo Trivial Mauritius: Prime Minister Ramgoolam message to MT (birthday greetings) [thanks] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 5 Fr Major Mauritius: No.10 (internal) minute ("Prime Minister's Visits Overseas and Visits 1981") [dates for meeting/Dinner with Prime Minister Ramgoolam] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Dec 12 Fr Major Mauritius: No.10 minute to MT ("Visits and Visitors - 1981") [provisional programme] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 4 We Major Mauritius: MT message to Prime Minister Ramgoolam (closure of Tate & Lyle cane sugar refinery at Liverpool) [MT assures UK commitment to Sugar Protocol] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 10 Tu Major Mauritius: FCO briefing for MT ("Official Visit of the Prime Minister of Mauritius: 10-13 February") [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Feb 12 Th Major Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Ramgoolam, Luce, Ringadoo, Harold Walker & others) [Communist domestic political opposition; sugar trade; UK aid loan; Diego Garcia] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Jul 22 Th Major Mauritius: John Coles minute to MT ("Mauritius Prime Minister") [meeting: "arguments for and against"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 5 Tu Major Mauritius: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Prime Minister of Mauritius") [Pym's case for MT meeting with Jugnauth, in advance of his address to UN General Assembly] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 11 Mo Major Mauritius: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Jugnauth & others) [shortage of foreign exchange/unemployment; sugar trade; UK aid; Diego Garcia; British Council; student fees; address to UN General Assembly; Ilois Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 14 Th Major Mauritius: MT message to Prime Minister Jugnauth (FCO telegram to UKMIS New York) (Ilois Agreement) [possible withholding of funds pending Jugnauth speech on territorial integrity to UN General Assembly] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 15 Fr Major Mauritius: Prime Minister Jugnauth message to MT (2215Z ) (Official Visit to UK) [thanks; Ilois Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Dec 3 Fr Major Mauritius: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Overseas Students") [response to MT query about a '£10 million' fund she believed was available] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Feb 17 Fr Major Mauritius: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Official Visit of Prime Minister of Mauritius to the UK") [MT agrees Howe's case for issuing invite] [declassified Jan 2014]