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PREM19/1407
Zaire (Visits to UK by President Mobutu, December 1981 and September 1984: meetings with Prime Minister)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 70
Themes: Foreign policy (Africa), Foreign policy (development, aid, etc), Foreign policy (International organizations), Commonwealth (South Africa)

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Date Value Title
81 Nov 19 Th Major Zaire: Lord Carrington message to Amassador Snodgrass (1238Z) ("Visit to Britain by Mobutu") [request for meeting with MT during stopover in London] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Nov 20 Fr Major Zaire: UKE Kinshasha telegram 156 to FCO (0655Z) ("Visit of President Mobutu") [request for meeting with MT during stopover in London] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 2 We Major Zaire: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit of President Mobutu") [MT consents "reluctantly" to argument for meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 7 Mo Major Zaire: UKE Washington telegram 3701 to FCO (2031Z) ("Visit to US by President Mobutu") [report] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 8 Tu Major Zaire: UKE Paris telegram 1083 to FCO (1815Z) ("Visit of President Mobutu") [Mobutu's meeting with Mitterrand: US aid; Israel; Chad] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 8 Tu Major Zaire: No.10 briefing for MT ("President of Zaire") [UK aid/relations; Zaire economy/internal politics; Namibia; Chad] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 9 We Major Zaire: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mobutu, Richard Luce, Yoka, Matangulu) ["Visit of President Mobutu": UK aid; investment protection agreement; African issues] [declassified Jan 2014]
81 Dec 10 Th Minor Zaire: No.10 minute to Lord Carrington PS ("Visit of the President of Zaire") [copy of brief for Mobutu left behind after meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 18 Tu Major Zaire: President Mobutu letter to MT (Zaire's economy) [aide-mémoire of aid requirement & plan for economic recovery] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 24 Mo Major Zaire: Charles Powell note to MT (President Mobutu's request to call on the Prime Minister) [MT agrees to case set out by FCO for meeting at short notice] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Sep 26 We Major Zaire: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by President Mobutu on the Prime Minister") [Zaire economy/foreign aid; Falklands; Chad; Southern Africa] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 27 Tu Major Zaire: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Mobutu, John Johnson, Umba di Lutete) [Zaire economy/foreign aid; Falklands; Chad; Southern Africa] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 29 Th Major Zaire: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Zaire: Possible Message to President Mobutu") [follow-up to meeting with Mobutu in which MT committed to "study carefully... Zaire's economic problems"; Mobutu reinvestiture ceremony for third term of office] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mo Major Zaire: MT message to President Mobutu (1050Z) (Reinvestiture as President of the Republic of Zaire) ["ready to do all we can to help"] [declassified Jan 2014]