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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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 82 Sep 30 Th | Major | Chile: UKMIS New York telegram 1526 to FCO (0049Z) (Pym-Rojas conversation) [Argentina; trade/British military equipment; human rights/democracy] [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] |
| 80 Apr 14 Mo | Major | Chile: UKE Santiago telegram 003 to FCO ("Chile: Arms Embargo") [case for lifting of embargo; re-appointment of Defence attaché; Defence staff: exchange visits] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 81 Feb 17 Tu | Major | Chile: UKE Bonn Defence Sales telegram to MODUK (1545Z) ("Submarines for Chile") [cancellation of West German contract; proposal for Vickers to pick up the work] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Sep 24 Fr | Major | Chile: Rees minute to Cockfield ("Visit to South America 2-16 September 1982") [trade mission to Chile, Paraguay and Ecuador: human rights (Chile); Argentina; UK military hardware; UK exports; exports to UK; Falklands/UN; cooperation on industrial projects] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Sep 3 Fr | Major | Chile: Pym minute to Nott (request from the Chilean Air Force for assistance in counter-terrorism) ["may be put to uses of which we would not approve"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 Apr 21 Mo | Major | Chile: Pym minute to MT ("Chile: Arms Sales") [case for relaxation of embargo] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 Jan 9 We | Major | Chile: Pym minute to MT ("Chile") ["I hope that, following the exchange of Ambassadors, we could put in train a review of the arms embargo... [and] the wider issue of unilateral constraints on the export of arms generally"] [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] |
| 81 Jul 20 Mo | Major | Chile: Nott letter to Carrington (sale of Vickers tanks to Chile) ["not as bad as a number of other customers to whom we are prepared to supply"] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Mar 23 We | Major | Chile: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Schweitzer) ["Call on the Prime Minister by the Chilean Foreign Minister"; Argentina; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 83 Mar 22 Tu | Major | Chile: No.10 record of conversation ("Chile") [Anthony Parsons, Alan Walters, Miguel Schweitzer Walters: Argentina; human rights] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 81 Oct 19 Mo | Major | Chile: No.10 letter to Sir James Goldsmith (Chile's economic & social progress) [documentation provided by Chilean Minister of Mining] [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] |
| 85 Mar 7 Th | Major | Chile: MT message to President Pinochet (earthquake in Chile) [offer to assist with relief measures] [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] |
| 80 Mar 31 Mo | Major | Chile: MT letter to Neville Trotter MP (sale of defence equipment to Chile) [arms embargo; Defence Attaché] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 80 Jul 23 We | Major | Chile: MT letter to Neville Trotter MP (sale of defence equipment to Chile) [applications for licenses; Defence Attaché to Santiago] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Feb 22 Mo | Major | Chile: MT letter to Managing Director of Norton Megaw and Co. Ltd. (Export License for Machine Guns for Chile) [reason for refusal] [declassified Dec 2014] |
| 82 Jun 7 Mo | Major | Chile: MT letter to Managing Director of Norton Megaw and Co. Ltd. (Export License for Machine Guns for Chile) [license granted after MT requests review of decision to refuse; "no licenses will be granted for equipment likely to be used for internal repression"] [declassified Dec 2014] |