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1990 Aug 13 - 1990 Aug 19
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3076
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 23)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 349
Any docs withheld? 15

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90 Aug 9 Thu Gulf War: MT letter to Amir of Kuwait (invasion) ["outrage and dismay ... doing all we can ... to reverse this monstrous act of aggression"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1912 to FCO (0248Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: public comments by Administration officials”) [US making defensive deployments at Saudi request] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [answers to MT questions] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: No.10 letter to FCO & Ministry of Defence (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [MT asks four questions - blockade, propaganda, hot pursuit, chemical weapons] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1911 to FCO (0248Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: US policy”) ["wide-ranging meeting with [Robert] Kimmitt"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: message to Gorbachev and Soviet attitude”) [no longer critical of US deployment to Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [American account of Kelly visit] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (“Kuwait/Iraq: Sitrep 131600Z”) [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Paris telegram to FCO (“Operation Granby”) ["D[efence] A[ttache] meeting with Admiral Lanxade - military adviser to President Mitterrand] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 978 to FCO (2230Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council consultations”) ["considerable feeling ... that military action should only be taken if sanctions were shown not to work"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Attorney-General's Office letter to Ministry of Defence (“Iraq/Kuwait: Oil Embargo”) [Attorney-General's advice] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: MT letter to President Mubarak of Egypt (admiration & thanks) [his strength and diplomatic skills in handling the Kuwait crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Lord President's Office letter to Chief Whip's Office (“Recall of Parliament: Letter from Mr Wallace”) [consult Liberal Democrats in order to forestall public discussion of whether or not Parliament need be recalled] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Ministry of Defence letter to No.10 (“Iraq/Kuwait: US Demarche”) [on setting up of Multinational Naval Force at Kuwaiti request] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO (“Kuwaiti request for international assistance”) [legal basis for interdiction of shipping] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 1915 to FCO (2225Z) (“Iraq/Kuwait: Rules of Engagement”) [need to align British rules of engagement with Saudi/US ones] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO (“Jordan and sanctions”) [aside from export licenses, none yet being applied by Jordan to Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: UKE The Hague telegram to FCO (“Iraq/Kuwait: Dutch contribution to Gulf force”) ["Dutch government to send two frigates to Gulf"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (“Iraq/Kuwait”) [smaller Gulf states "a bit miffed" no British military assets offered them; send minister quickly to reassure them] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 13 Mon Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT (message from Tom King) ["furious about Alan Clark going to the Gulf, thinks it all wrong and wants to talk to you urgently"] [declassified Jul 2017]