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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 Valuesort descending Title
84 Nov 8 Thu Nicaragua: Powell note to MT ("Nicaragua") [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Oct 29 Mon Nicaragua: FCO telegram to UKE San Jose ("Nicaraguan election observers") [details of British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Sep 30 Sun Nicaragua: UKE San Jose record of conversation (Howe, Miguel d'Escoto) [Contadora Process; Nicaraguan elections; Central American concerns about Soviet-backed Nicaraguan military build-up] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Sep 30 Sun Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("San Jose meeting: Nicaragua") [Ambassador Summerscale, President Monge record of conversation: assessment of current political situation] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Sep 26 Wed Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 2867 to FCO (2330Z) ("Central America") [David Hannay, Langhorne Motley record of conversation: Contadora Process; Nicaraguan elections] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Aug 8 Wed Nicaragua: Baroness Young minute to MT ("Nicaraguan elections") [MT rejects case for sending British Parliamentary delegation] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Jul 9 Mon Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: elections and realignment of opposition") [negotiations between key opposition figures; Pastora plan to visit UK to drum up support; "unless a major concession is made soon, the outcome is likely to be elections which are seen widely... as a farce"] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 May 10 Thu Nicaragua: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua") [International Court of Justice verdict on Nicaragua vs US] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 May 1 Tue Nicaragua: No.10 letter to Sir Philip du Zulueta (Nicaragua and the security of the Caribbean region) [Zulueta: "highly possible that the U.S. will invade Nicaragua"] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Apr 7 Sat Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 1146 to FCO (0156Z) ("Nicaraguan Ports") ["French offer on mine-sweeping... the [US] Administration are infuriated"] [declassified Nov 2016]
84 Apr 4 Wed 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 Mar 31 Sat Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: mining of ships") ["The toll is now four merchant vessels damaged in last month plus two Nicaraguan fishing boats... Nicaraguan MoD... saying mines are US manufactured"] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Nov 2 Wed Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: post Grenada") ["Continued Contra raids and US intervention in Grenada have considerably increased tension in Nicaragua] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Jul 21 Thu Nicaragua: UKE Washington telegram 2068 to FCO (2155Z) ("Nicaraguan peace proposals") ["Privately the Americans are more cautious about Ortega's proposals... which do not address what is for them the key issue of the 2000 Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua"] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Jul 21 Thu Nicaragua: UKE Tegucigalpa telegram to FCO ("Honduras/Nicaragua peace plan") ["The Honduran MFA believes that Nicaragua wants to disengage from the Contadora process"] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Jul 20 Wed Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua: internal") [summary of Ortega speech to mark 4th anniversary of Sandinista revolution] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Jul 20 Wed Nicaragua: UKE San Jose telegram to FCO ("Nicaragua and Contadora") [Nicaraguan peace proposal] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Apr 26 Tue Nicaragua: MT letter to President Ortega (Central American crisis) [Ortega: "The attitude taken by the Governments of Honduras and the United States... obstructs any genuine attempt to secure a reduction in tensions"] [declassified Nov 2016]
83 Apr 9 Sat Nicaragua: President Ortega letter to MT (Central American crisis) ["The attitude taken by the Governments of Honduras and the United States... obstructs any genuine attempt to secure a reduction in tensions"] [declassified Nov 2016]
82 Mar 12 Fri 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]