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PREM19/1688
Commonwealth (Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM), Nassau, Bahamas, October 1985) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 282
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85 Oct 11 Fri South Africa: FCO minute (“Information Pack: British Policy Towards South Africa”) [need to “get across how much Britain is already doing to promote peaceful change”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 11 Fri South Africa: UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland letter to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”) [resolutions on South Africa - apartheid, violence] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 14 Mon South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Prime Minister’s Statement on the World Political Scene”) [tighter structure needed, expand section on Non-Proliferation Treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 14 Mon South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“CHOGM: Briefing Meeting”) [handling of situation in South Africa, bilaterals with other leaders] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 14 Mon Energy: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Brunei Shell Petroleum”) [“The situation requires delicate handling”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 14 Mon South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa on the eve of CHOGM”) [“Government’s worst handicap is a virtual loss of credibility among blacks”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 15 Tue South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [Commonwealth Liaison Group] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 15 Tue Commonwealth: FCO record of conversation (“Senior Officials Meeting 15 October 1985”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 15 Tue Health: FCO minute (“CHOGM: UNICEF - Global Immunisation”) [briefing ahead of possible CHOGM discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 15 Tue Economy: Edward Seaga statement (joint IMF-Commonwealth Caribbean Group of Countries meeting) [need for reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 15 Tue South Africa: Geoffrey Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (“CHOGM and the Gleneagles Agreement”) [“we do not have the power to limit individual freedoms in the sort of way others may have”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 16 Wed Energy: MT letter to Shell Petroleum (negotiations with Brunei government) [will take up the matter with the Sultan in Nassau] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 16 Wed South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney) [Commonwealth action on South Africa meaningless unless UK involved, Mulroney suggests UK propose package of measures] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 16 Wed South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda) [how to avoid bloodshed in South Africa, question of sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 17 Thu Commonwealth: Brian Mulroney note to MT (executive session) [“this meeting is the ultimate test of the patience of any reasonable person of conservative persuasion!”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 17 Thu Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretariat record of conversation (CHOGM first executive session) [Armstrong comments on draft record of MT's remarks] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 17 Thu South Africa: MT statement (introductory remarks on the world political scene) [global security, arms control, South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 17 Thu South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke) [no intention to embarrass or attack the UK; “it was necessary to be ready to talk about sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 18 Fri South Africa: CHOGM draft communiqué (declaration on world order; declaration on South Africa; Benjamin Moloise execution) [“we resolve to redouble our support for the struggle to hasten the end of the abomination of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]
85 Oct 18 Fri South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mugabe) [“Mugabe seemed ready to endorse violence”] [declassified Dec 2016]