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1984 Jun 18 - 1985 Oct 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1431
Commonwealth (Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Nassau, Bahamas, October 1985) (Part 9)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 242
Any docs withheld? 1

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85 Oct 11 Fri Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: Attendance by National Representatives") ["None of these people should... attend any of the formal sessions... there will, however, be mingling in the margins"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 9 Wed Commonwealth: Chairman of the Council of Turkish Cypriot Associations letter to MT (plight of the Turkish Cypriot people) [request for MT to meet delegation in advance of Commonwealth conference in Bahamas] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 9 Wed Commonwealth: Chairman of Shell letter to MT (negotiations between Shell and Brunei Government over oil and gas arrangements) [status report in advance of Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tue Commonwealth: UKHC Lusaka telegram 427 to FCO (0825Z) ("CHOGM: attendance by the ANC") [details] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tue Commonwealth: UKE Seoul telegram 232 to FCO (0300Z) ("IMF/IBRD Annual Meeting: Development Committee") [record of 27th meeting on 7 October 1985] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tue Commonwealth: Charles Powell letter to Lord Lewin (project to restore the wartime operations room at Lascarts) [potential topic to be raised with MT by Prime Minister of Malta at next Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 8 Tue Commonwealth: Channon PS letter to No.10 ("Malaysian Projects") ["My Minister shares the concern which... [MT] has expressed about the Malaysian Government's handling of... [UK] contracts"; MT talks with Dr Mahathir at Heads of Government meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri Commonwealth: UKHC Colombo telegram 667 to FCO (0540Z) ("Commonwealth Finance Ministers meeting: Maldives 1985") [record] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri Commonwealth: UKHC Canberra telegram 686 to FCO (0630Z) ("CHOGM: South Africa") [Bob Hawke public criticism of UK stance on sanctions] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri Commonwealth: UKE Pretoria telegram 376 to FCO (1445Z) ("Commonwealth economic relations with SA") ["answers to your queries about economic relations between SA and Commonwealth countries"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri Commonwealth: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa at CHOGM") ["a note on the action being taken to manage the South African issue in the run-up to CHOGM and at the meeting itself"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Thu Commonwealth: Charles Powell minute to FCO ("South Africa at CHOGM") [feedback on draft speaking notes] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Thu Commonwealth: Howe PS minute to No.10 ("Prime Minister's briefing meeting for CHOGM") [attendees] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 3 Thu Commonwealth: FCO telegram 930 to UKHC New Delhi (1630Z) ("Lobbying of Commonwealth Governments on South Africa before CHOGM") [text of Howe message to UK High Commissions: "we expect all Commonwealth posts to lobby their host governments and report reactions"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 2 Wed Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM: UK exports to the Bahamas") [request that MT take a personal interest in prospective sale of Shorts aircraft] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 1 Tue Commonwealth: Prime Minister Mulroney letter to MT (Heads of Government Meeting: South Africa) ["minimum additional measures which the Commonwealth could adopt in Nassau"] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 1 Tue Commonwealth: Executive Vice-Chair of the Commonwealth Human Ecology Council letter to MT ("CHOGM - Bahamas, October 16 - 22, 1985") [paper for CHOGM] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 26 Thu Commonwealth: MT letter to Secretary General Ramphal (Heads of Government meeting in Nassau) [MT agrees to introduce discussion on World Political Scene & to reply to Bahamas PM's toast to his guests] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 25 Wed Commonwealth: Rauf Denktash letter to MT (Heads of Government meeting in Nassau) [request to address the meeting] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 23 Mon Commonwealth: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("CHOGM - Commonwealth Secretariat Papers") [No.10 requirements & preferences; CHOGM Agenda] [declassified Dec 2014]