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1979 Sep 17 - 1985 Dec 9
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1424
Chile (UK/Chilean relations: policy on arms sales)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 328
Any docs withheld? 9

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85 Dec 4 We Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile at the UN") [MT agrees to UK vote to support UN resolution criticising human rights abuses, but laments lack of consistency] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tu Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile: Proposed EC Demarche") [proposed diplomatic response to latest Chilean government crackdown; MT bemoans "double standards"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tu Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile: Internal") ["a proposed EC statement to welcome the [Democratic Opposition parties'] "National Accord" of 25 August"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 1 Mo Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile: Lifting of the State of Siege") [situation report; MT agrees proposed bilateral approach to Chilean authorities] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 26 Tu Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chilean Earthquake") [reply from Pinochet to MT via officials] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 25 Mo Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile") [MT agrees with proposal to resist further EC demarche protesting death sentence on three accused of assassination] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 7 Th Major Chile: MT message to President Pinochet (earthquake in Chile) [offer to assist with relief measures] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 7 Th Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile at the UN") [case for voting in favour of latest UN resolution criticising human rights violations] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Mar 4 Mo Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile") [case for supporting EC démarche against lack of judicial safeguards for defendants on trial for assassination of the Governor of Santiago] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Feb 1 Fr Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Chilean relations") [MT opposed to proposed EC message to Chilean Government urging resumption of political dialogue with democratic opposition groups; UN resolution] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Chile: Charles Powell minute to MT (Anglo-Chilean relations) [MT request to be consulted by FCO on any future statements by the Ten & about UK position at UN on matters affecting Chile] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 24 Th Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Anglo-Chilean relations") [Howe "does not consider that the steps mentioned in your letter represent a significant distancing of ourselves from Chile"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jan 10 Th Major Chile: Lord Thomas note to No.10 (negotiation with the Soviet Union) [newspaper article] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 May 16 We Major Chile: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Chile") [defence sales to Chile; HMS Antrim] [declassified Dec 2014]
84 Mar 9 Fr Major Chile: FCO telegram to UKE Santiago ("Walter Rauff") [instructions to UK ambassador to support W. German request for Nazi war criminal's repatriation to stand trial] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Dec 16 Fr Major Chile: UKE Santiago telegram 946 to FCO (1445Z) ("Resignation of Chilean Foreign Minister") [details & thoughts on the resignation] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Nov 10 Th Major Chile: MT letter to Prime Minister González (re-establishment of democracy in Chile) ["will continue to work to advance the cause... without interfering in Chile's internal affairs"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Aug 30 Tu Major Chile: Prime Minister González letter to MT (re-establishment of democracy in Chile) ["we should jointly seek the way for an initiative"] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Jun 17 Fr Major Chile: Heseltine PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Commander in Chief of Chilean Navy") [summary of engagements; line to take in response to criticism of visit; purchase of HMS Hermes] [declassified Dec 2014]
83 Apr 5 Tu Major Chile: No.10 letter to General Secretary of the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation (recent visit to the UK by Commander in Chief of the Chilean Air Force) ["does not imply that this Government codones Chile's poor human rights record"] [declassified Dec 2014]