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1981 Sep 22 - 1985 Oct 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1672
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 323
Any docs withheld? 11

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81 Sep 22 Tue Afghanistan: UKMIS New York record of conversation (relayed by telegram, 0436Z, 23 Sep) (Lord Carrington, Gromyko) ["Secretary of State's Meeting with Gromyko: Afghanistan"] [released Jul 2018]
81 Sep 22 Tue Afghanistan: UKMIS New York record of conversation (1908Z) (Lord Carrington, Agha Shahi) ["Secretary of State's Meeting with Foreign Minister of Pakistan on 22 September: Afghanistan"] [released Jul 2018]
81 Sep 30 Wed Afghanistan: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Film on Afghanistan") [MT takes close interest in ongoing series of information films commissioned by FCO from the Central Office of Information] [released Jul 2018]
81 Oct 12 Mon Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 228 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [including report on Afghan media reaction to MT visit to Pakistan/Afghan border] [released Jul 2018]
81 Oct 19 Mon Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 236 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [including report on ongoing Afghan media & Government reactions to MT visit to Pakistan/Afghan border] [released Jul 2018]
81 Oct 21 Wed Afghanistan: UKMIS New York telegram 1089 to FCO (1700Z) ("Afghanistan") [latest position on talks] [released Jul 2018]
81 Nov 9 Mon Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 245 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [released Jul 2018]
81 Nov 17 Tue Afghanistan: MT letter to Vladimir Bukovsky (Soviet intervention and human rights in Afghanistan) ["You draw my attention in particular to the question of Soviet defectors who are in the hands of the Resistance inside Afghanistan"] [released Jul 2018]
81 Nov 18 Wed Afghanistan: UKMIS New York telegram 1270 to FCO (2314Z) ("Afghanistan at the UNGA") [report on Debate: "a splendid result for the Pakistanis"; latest US condemnation of Soviet invasion] [released Jul 2018]
81 Nov 24 Tue Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 581 to FCO (0615Z) ("Soviet Plastic Mines in Parachinar") [Associate Press Pakistan report: "eye-witness accounts of Soviet/Afghan... mine-laying operations against both Afghan refugees... and Pakistani civilians"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Mar 11 Thu Afghanistan: MT letter to Peter Temple-Morris MP ("Soviet Plastic Mines in Parachinar") ["I shall be delighted to receive a deputation on the occasion of Afghanistan Day"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Mar 16 Tue Afghanistan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Afghan Delegation: 1800 hours, Thursday") [meeting with all-Party Afghanistan Support Committee: photocall] [released Jul 2018]
82 Mar 16 Tue Afghanistan: FCO telegram 43 to UKE Abidjan & Certain Other Posts (1713Z) incorporating MT message to Afghanistan Support Committee ("Afghanistan Day") [2nd anniversary of Soviet invasion: message of support & renewal of call on Soviets to withdraw; details of Afghan delegation to be received by MT; HMG measures to mark Afghanistan Day] [released Jul 2018]
82 Mar 17 Wed Afghanistan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call at No.10 by the Afghanistan Support Committee: 6pm on Thursday 18 March") [Committee representation; fundraising efforts; talking points] [released Jul 2018]
82 Mar 18 Thu Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Afghanistan Support Committee) [fundraising; European Parliament activities; Afghan resistance; chemical weapons] [released Jul 2018]
82 Apr 8 Thu Afghanistan: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT (Vladimir Bukovsky: the strategic value of Western resistance to Soviet occupation of Afghanistan) [copy of Bukovsky letter to John Hoskyns] [released Jul 2018]
82 Jul 1 Thu Afghanistan: UKE Islamabad telegram 290 to FCO (1000Z) ("Afghanistan: Geneva Talks") [report] [released Jul 2018]
82 Sep 23 Thu Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 139 to FCO (0400Z) ("Afghanistan") [second-hand report of Gromyko talks with UN: "Russians... looking for a way out"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Nov 19 Fri Afghanistan: FCO telegram 213 to Certain Missions and Dependent Territories (1300Z) ("Afghanistan: The Interview with Kuzichkin") [Soviet defector: "The Russians are now bogged down in a war which they cannot win and cannot abandon"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Nov 23 Tue Afghanistan: UKHC Harare telegram 666 to FCO (1404Z) ("Afghanistan at the UNGA") [Zimbabwe continuing to oppose Soviet occupation] [released Jul 2018]