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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/2367
Nicaragua (Internal situation: relations with UK) (Part 1)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Nov 7
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 311
Any docs withheld? 10

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84 Apr 4 We Major Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["We trust... that your government will support the draft resolution submitted by Nicaragua at the Security Council"; vote has already taken place, with UK abstaining, by time letter reaches No.10] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 May 10 Th Major Nicaragua: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict on Nicaragua vs US] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Nov 14 We Major Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 3387 to FCO (0028Z) ("U.S. policy on Nicaragua") [current state of play amidst speculation of an imminent US invasion] [declassified Nov 2016]
86 Apr 10 Th Major Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 882 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/Central America") [Oliver Wright record of conversation with Philip Habib] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 Feb 6 We Major Nicaragua: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Vice-President of Nicaragua") [Contadora Process & relations with the US; UK concerns about Sandinista methods of government, policies & the electoral process] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Nov 14 We Major Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 3376 to FCO (0137Z) ("Migs for Nicaragua") [current state of play] [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]
85 Jan 14 Mo Major Nicaragua: UKE Mexico City telegram to FCO ("Visit of Mr Kinnock: statements to the Press") [summary] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 May 10 Fr Major Nicaragua: MT letter to President Ortega (Nicaragua, the US, and the Contadora process) [supports US policy and condemns policies of the Sandinista government as the cause of increasing instability in Central America] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 Feb 12 Tu Major Nicaragua: MT message to President Reagan (Prime Minister's meeting with Vice President Ramirez) [recount of her meeting: "I do not think he will have derived much satisfaction from [it]"] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Nov 12 Mo Major Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua") ["A state of national alert has been declared": summary of current state of play amidst mounting Soviet/US military tension] [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 May 27 Mo Major Nicaragua: UKE Paris telegram to FCO ("GATT and Nicaragua") [UK handling of France's position on US trade embargo] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 Mar 7 Th Major Nicaragua: MT letter to President Ortega (Nicaragua, the US and the Contadora process) ["(we) remain convinced that the Contadora process presents the best opportunity to achieve a peaceful solution to the crisis in the region"] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 Feb 8 Fr Major Nicaragua: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Sergio Ramirez, Nora Astorga, Sir Willliam Harding) [Contadora Process & relations with the US; UK concerns about Sandinista methods of government, policies & the electoral process] [declassified Nov 2016]
85 Jun 7 Fr Major Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (UK support for the Reagan adminstration) ["frank amazement at your open defence of the immoral and illegal"] [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 Jul 3 Th Major Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (International Court of Judgement verdict: US support for Contras) [Ortega urges UK to support calls for an end to illegal US actions in Nicaragua] [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 Oct 29 We Major Nicaragua: UKMIS New York telegram 1150 to FCO (0225Z) ("Security Council: ICJ/Nicaragua") [report on outcome of UN resolution vote: "A three-way split between the five western members of the Council is always a bad result"; No.10 unhappy with comments] [declassified Nov 2016]