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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1967
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 10)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Secret - UK Eyes A
Page count: 484
Any docs withheld? 14

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86 Jun 22 Su Major South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa: meeting of Ministers") [draft OD paper: "a defeatist and disappointing document... [aims for] EC consensus... no suggestion that we should try to rally support... against taking measures"; draft Annex: "shows... severe objections to a ban on coal [and steel] imports"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 21 Sa Major South Africa: Powell minute for MT ("South Africa: telephone call to Chancellor Kohl") [lines to take on sanctions; proposal for Howe to visit South Africa in his capacity as EC President; Kohl proposal for UK/France/W.Germany/US meeting; US position] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 21 Sa Major South Africa: CorEU The Hague telegram to All CorEU ("Extraordinary Ministerial meeting on South Africa, the Hague, 26 June 1986") [text of paper for discussion] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1650 to FCO (2330Z) ("US/South Africa") [US administration under mounting pressure from Congress to impose sanctions: "[should] be able to hold the line - as long as US allies were equally resolute"; Charles Powell annotation: "monstrous that the Foreign Office have not been following this line"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: FCO record of conversation ("European Political Cooperation: Political Committee: The Hague, 20 June: South Africa") [discussion of further sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (South Africa: sanctions and dialogue) ["In preparing for the European meeting on 26/27 June, it would be very helpful to me to have a frank account of your thinking"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": "at next week's European Council... [MT] said that her strong preference would be to avoid decisions on measures... [Howe] said that he thought that it would be difficult to avoid decisions"; meeting with Tambo] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation ("South Africa") [Charles Powell, Horst Teltschik: proposed UK/US/W. Germany/France meeting; Howe consultations with US, Japan & other OECD countries, and visit to South Africa; opposition to import bans with particularly damaging effects on black communities] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 20 Fr Major South Africa: Alan Clark PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: trade statistics") [data provided at request of MT following Ministerial meeting on 18 June; CDP annotation: "The effect on us of full economic sanctions would be greater than the effect on all the rest of the Commonwealth put together"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Th Major South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1630 to FCO (2225Z) ("US/South Africa") [proceedings in Congress; "the chances of an Administration concession have probably in fact increased"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Th Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South Africa: the current mood") ["Government's emergency measures have so far proved broadly successful... in the long run... will solve nothing... seem determined to do their own thing and damn the consequences"; Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Th Major South Africa: Robert Jackson MP letter to No.10 (sanctions against South Africa) [text of his speech in Parliamentary debate] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 19 Th Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Patrick Wall MP, John Biggs-Davison MP, Ian Lloyd MP, Julian Amery MP, George Gardiner MP, John Carlisle MP) [members of Conservative Back Bench Committee on South Africa: sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 18 We Major South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lawson, Tebbit, Wakeham, Alan Clark, Robert Armstrong, Percy Cradock) ["South Africa": sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 17 Tu Major South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("MISC 118") [assessment of the risk of South African goverment banning strategic mineral exports in retaliation for sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 17 Tu Major South Africa: Powell briefing for MT ("Ministerial meeting: South Africa") ["We now need to decide how to apply... [our] policy in practice at the European Council on 26/27 June and in the run up to the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting"; points to consider] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mo Major South Africa: UKE Luxembourg record of conversation ("Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, 16 June 1986. South Africa") [Howe, EC Foreign Ministers: sanctions] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mo Major South Africa: UKHC Harare telegram to FCO ("Armed struggle in South Africa: Mugabe's speech") ["gave priority to armed struggle... [supported] sanctions... by the international community... even if it meant suffering"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mo Major South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("South Africa: Motion") [suggests draft amendment for Parliamentary debate on effective measures to oppose apartheid; Howe speech for Debate attached] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Jun 16 Mo Major South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS (interception of arms and ammunition to the ANC) [details and handling of reply to South African government] [declassified Feb 2016]