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1986 Aug 1 - 1986 Nov 28
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1970
South Africa (Internal situation; relations with UK) (Part 13)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Feb 19
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 289
Any docs withheld? 7

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86 Nov 27 Thu South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: arms embargo on South Africa") ["[Howe] intends to authorise our delegation in New York to vote for the resolution provided the Americans and French also vote in favour"; MT: "we should not do anything to persuade them to vote that way"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 24 Mon South Africa: Chairman of Barclays Bank PLC letter to MT (disposal of Barclays Bank investment in Barclays National Bank of South Africa) [press statement] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 13 Thu South Africa: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("South Africa") ["FRG still pursuing idea of a joint political initiative... [with] US, UK" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Nov 12 Wed South Africa: John Bruce Lockhart letter to No.10 (South Africa and 'The Lobby') [cover letter only, referring to an enclosed paper on "various influences outside South Africa, which are distorting the political realities inside South Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 31 Fri South Africa: FCO telegram 1897 to UKE Washington (1700Z) ("South Africa: UK/US/FRG tripartite talks") ["arguments for a political initiative... UK and US responded cautiously"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 30 Thu South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO ("The South African Scene") [situation report: "After two months absence... I find little has changed here except perhaps for the worse"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 29 Wed South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Zambia/Zimbabwe: overflights") ["intention to break air links with South Africa... likely to increase the pressure to ban overflights of these countries by British Airways"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 28 Tue South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2739 to FCO (2315Z) ("FRG/South Africa") [Michael Jenkins, Chester Crocker record of conversation: "wished to float two ideas... possibility of instituting regular UK/US/FRG trilateral discussions... [and] a public declaration of principles"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 17 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["ideas... which he proposes to discuss with President Reagan. They seem to run well ahead of what is practicable"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 10 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") [MT not persuaded by Howe argument for writing to President Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 10 Fri South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa: visit of NAM Foreign Ministers") [request to meet with MT or Howe - expected to plea for comprehensive sanctions; advice] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 4 Sat South Africa: President of Jei-Ai Publishing Co. Ltd letter to MT (sanctions against South Africa) [copy attached of the company's letter to Archbishop of Canterbury: case against sanctions, and proposed alternatives] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 3 Fri South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 2519 to FCO (0015Z) ("US/South Africa") ["Senate overrides President's veto. Santions bill now US law"; details] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Oct 2 Thu South Africa: Howe minute to Channon ("Voluntary ban on new investment") ["We are bound, as Presidency, to allow our [EC] partners time to try to reach a common position... I would [however]... wish us to announce our measures in the next few days"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 19 Fri South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Charles (action to abolish apartheid) ["I do not believe that sanctions are the answer"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 15 Mon South Africa: MT letter to Prime Minister Dlamini (action to abolish apartheid) ["agree with you that general economic sanctions would not solve the problem"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 14 Sun South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["Foreign Affairs Council: 15/16 September: South Africa": joint US/UK/FRG resistance to punitive sanctions/ban on coal imports] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 13 Sat South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Foreign Affairs Council: 15/16 September: South Africa") ["you expected... [MT] to wish to be consulted... EC Foreign Ministers have] argued... we should implement at least those measures agreed in the Hague Communiqué... [Howe] intends to make clear... the UK's willingness to drop coal [imports ban, only] if others agree"] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 12 Fri South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("South Africa") ["Kohl... will urge you strongly to get coal dropped from the EC sanctions... my own view is that you can't let Kohl down"; Reagan likely to veto Senate bill and seek to replace it more limited measures excluding coal import ban] [declassified Feb 2016]
86 Sep 8 Mon South Africa: Prime Minister Charles letter to MT (action agaisnt apartheid) ["my views on apartheid... diametrically opposed to yours... better to have a short and very painful period [of sanctions]... than a long drawn-out... confrontation"] [declassified Feb 2016]