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Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/2367
Nicaragua (Internal situation: relations with UK) (Part 1)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2016 Nov 7 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 311 |
| Any docs withheld? | 10 |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 84 Aug 8 We | Major | Nicaragua: Baroness Young minute to MT ("Nicaraguan elections") [MT rejects case for sending British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Oct 24 Fr | Major | Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Nicaragua") [UN resolution on Inernational Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "The Foreign Secretary is reluctant to accept your view"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Oct 23 Th | Major | Nicaragua: Charles Powell minute to MT ("UN Security Council: Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "We know how very important this issue is to the President... We don't want this issue to mar your visit"; MT inclined to UK abstaining from vote] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Feb 6 We | Major | Nicaragua: FCO record of conversation (Howe, Sergio Ramirez) ["Call on the Prime Minister by Vice-President Ramirez of Nicaragua": record of Howe conversation supplied as briefing] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 79 Aug 1 We | Major | Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKE San Jose ("Nicaragua") [UK stance towards recognition of new government] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 84 Oct 29 Mo | Major | Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKE San Jose ("Nicaraguan election observers") [details of British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 79 Jul 31 Tu | Major | Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKHC Lusaka ("Nicaragua") [MT "belief that we should not rush into recognition of the new Nicaraguan government"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 84 Dec 20 Th | Major | Nicaragua: Heseltine minute to Howe ("Nicaragua") ["You ought to know that there is considerable concern here in MOD about the concept of air strikes"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jun 3 Mo | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") ["Nicaraguan peace proposals put forward during the recent US Congress debate"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Apr 1 Tu | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [analysis of current political situation and advice on what stance UK should take] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jul 3 We | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [MT agrees to "request... for a multi-party delegation to visit London... to study constitutional procedures"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Feb 11 Mo | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaraguan elections") [report of the British Parliamentary Delegation] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jan 22 Tu | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Request by the Nicaraguan Vice-President to call on the Prime Minister") [Powell: "There is probably something to be said for seeing him, and delivering some home truths which he won't hear elsewhere in London"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Jul 28 Mo | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council meeting on Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran; MT: "This is very important to the President- I think we should stand with him"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Jul 31 Th | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Security Council: Nicaragua/ICJ decision") [UN resolution on International Court of Justice verdict regarding US arms sales to Iran: "we are faced with a stark choice between support for international law or for our US ally"; Howe argues for UK abstaining from vote] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Apr 30 We | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict: "it will be necessary for us publicly to endorse the court's findings... if Nicaragua then has recourse to the Security Council we are likely to be faced with a difficult voting decision"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 86 Jun 27 Fr | Major | Nicaragua: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("US/Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 85 Jan 14 Mo | Major | Nicaragua: Hugh Thomas letter to MT ("Argentina - Nicaragua") [report of Argentine communists murdered by Contras] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 79 Jul 26 Th | Major | Nicaragua: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Nicaragua") [MT: "Please don't dash into recognition yet [of the new government]"] [declassified Nov 2016] |
| 82 Mar 12 Fr | Major | Nicaragua: Lord Carrington PS letter to No.10 (reports of Nicaraguan Government atrocities committed against the Miskito coast population) ["There is a danger that the US Administration may have exaggerated their claims"] [declassified Nov 2016] |