1985 Oct 10 - 1986 Aug 4
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
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 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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Showing items 21 - 40 of 49
| Date | Value | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 85 Oct 19 Sa | Major | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“South Africa”) [draft text expected, recomended changes] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 20 Su | Minor | Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President of Maldives) [requests for fishing rights, equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 20 Su | Major | South Africa: FCO minute (“Additional Measures”) [trade, economic relationships with South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 20 Su | Major | South Africa: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“Press conference this evening”) [“Your main problem will be to kill the charge that you have had to give a lot in order to get an agerement”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 20 Su | Major | South Africa: Note on sanctions against South Africa (“Commonwealth Declaration of Opposition to Apartheid”) [comparison of US, British and Canadian actions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Key | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“CHOGM: Heads of Government Retreat at Lyford Cay”) [MT “considerably disillusioned by the double standards applied by a number of the Commonwealth countries”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Major | Sri Lanka: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Jayewardene) [Tamil situation, need for military equipment from the UK] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Minor | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Final Session: Briefing Meeting”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Minor | Commonwealth: UKHC Nassau minute to No10 (“Tree Planting Ceremony at Roywest Trust Corporation”) [MT invited by RoyWest Trust Corporation] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Major | South Africa: CHOGM draft communique (“South Africa. The Commonwealth Accord”) [“apartheid must be dismantled now if a greater tragedy is to be averted”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 21 Mo | Major | Commonwealth: CHOGM Secretary minute (draft communique) [disarmament, small states, Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Minor | South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Parliamentary Statement”) [MT expected to have to give a statement, which should deal principally with discussions on South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Major | South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: South Africa: Group of Eminent Persons”) [nomination of group members] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Major | South Africa: Charles Powell telegram to UKE Pretoria (South African reactions to Commonwealth accord) [a rebuff by Both would be damaging to MT’s position and all she has worked for] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Major | South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKEs (“South Africa: The Commonwealth Accord”) [a major achievement, call for end to violence a considerable step forward] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Major | South Africa: FCO telegram to UKDEL Nassau (“South African reactions to the Commonwealth Accord”) [Botha “particularly critical of the six month time limit for concrete progress towards reform”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 22 Tu | Major | South Africa: CHOGM statement (“The Nassau Communique”) [commitments and resolutions] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 25 Fr | Major | South Africa: FCO minute to No10 (“Prime Minister’s Oral Statement: CHOGM and Visit to New York”) [draft statement focusing on discussions of South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Oct 29 Tu | Major | South Africa: MT draft statement to House of Commons (CHOGM and visit to New York) [“We were unanimous in our abhorrence of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016] |
| 85 Nov 1 Fr | Major | Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [surprise at requests for preferential EC fishing access; UK committed to provide equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016] |