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PREM19/2366
New Zealand (Internal situation: UK/New Zealand relations; Robert Muldoon succeeded as Prime Minister by David Lange; Labour government's ban on visits by nuclear-armed warships; sinking of Greenpeace vessel by French agents in Auckland harbour) (Part 1)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 242
Any docs withheld? 1

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81 Feb 20 Fri New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (Privy Council appointment) [Thomson's credentials] [declassified Dec 2016]
81 Nov 29 Sun New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 307 to FCO (2355Z) ("NZ General Election") ["worst possible result for New Zealand"] [declassified Dec 2016]
82 Aug 20 Fri New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (Air New Zealand) [launch of new service] [declassified Dec 2016]
82 Aug 20 Fri New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (Air New Zealand) [launch of new service, new treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
82 Aug 24 Tue New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (appointment of new High Commissioner) [Young's credentials] [declassified Dec 2016]
82 Sep 24 Fri New Zealand: FCO minute to New Zealand High Commission (initial courtesy calls) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
82 Oct 13 Wed New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-NZ High Commissioner Young) [domestic politics, EC butter quotas, Falklands, bilateral trade] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Sep 19 Mon New Zealand: DTI minute to Robin Butler ("High-Level Trade Mission from New Zealand") [arrangements, background] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Sep 23 Fri New Zealand: MT message to David Steel (High-Level Trade Mission from New Zealand) [welcome to the mission] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Oct 7 Fri New Zealand: Howe PS minute to John Coles ("Visit of the New Zealand Minister for Foreign Affairs and Overseas Trade") [EC/NZ butter quota, steel contract] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Oct 10 Mon New Zealand: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Cooper-Walding) [GATT round, EC butter quotas, sheepmeat, Hong Kong, steel] [declassified Dec 2016]
83 Oct 11 Tue New Zealand: Warren Cooper message to MT (visit to UK) [thanks for support on access to EC market] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Apr 1 Sun New Zealand: Robert Muldoon message to MT (EU agriculture ministers' meeting) [proposals on dairy not acceptable] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Apr 6 Fri New Zealand: Warren Cooper message to Geoffrey Howe (New Zealand butter) [Irish position, compromise arrangement] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Apr 8 Sun New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (EU agriculture ministers' meeting) [will have UK's support in seeking a five-year arrangement] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jun 12 Tue New Zealand: Robert Armstrong minute to Robin Butler ("Avowal of New Zealand SIGINT Organisation") [signals intelligence cooperation with allies] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jul 8 Sun New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (civil aviation sale) [EC decisions on Boeing, butter] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jul 8 Sun New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 211 to FCO (0051Z) ("Civil Aviation Sales") [purchase of Boeing or Airbus] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jul 9 Mon New Zealand: MT message to Robert Muldoon (new High Commissioner) [O'Leary's credentials] [declassified Dec 2016]
84 Jul 11 Wed New Zealand: UKHC Wellington telegram 214 to FCO (0328Z) ("New Zealand Election, 1984") [Labour well ahead in the polls] [declassified Dec 2016]