1990 Aug 20 - 1990 Aug 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files
PREM19/3077
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 24)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2017 Jul 20 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 370 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| Date | Value |
Title |
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| 90 Aug 23 Th | Minor | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Embassies in Kuwait") [Iraqi offer to let a single staff member remain in Kuwait] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Emissaries of the UN Secretary-General") ["[Tariq Aziz had] spoken bitterly of the Kuwaiti Ruling Family... [and] of the Security Council... then defended Iraq's policy of detaining Western foreigners"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Minor | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Foreigners in Iraq") ["sites where the Iraqis appear to be considering housing Western detainees"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 22 We | Major | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: de-confliction" - Iraqis asks for, and gets, US ROEs) [MT asks on whose authority and rejects sharing UK rules of engagement with Iraqis] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Minor | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Kuwait - Baghdad convoy") ["All UK and LE staff... arrived safely"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 20 Mo | Major | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Saddam's peace initiative") [proposals have "little to commend them [but] ... should not... be totally dismissive... in order to avoid provoking Saddam unnecessarily... clearly believes that he can use foreign hostages as a lever to break... resolve on sanctions"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to MoDUK ("Iraq/Kuwait deconfliction") [exchange of ROEs between US and Iraqis] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram 1056 to FCO (0915Z) ("German reaction to Gulf crisis") [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Bonn telegram to FCO ("FRG military reaction to Gulf crisis") ["participation in the present Gulf crisis seems most unlikely"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Damascus telegram to FCO ("Syria: attitude to Iraq/Kuwait crisis") ["continues to support the Western view... But there are signs that the regime is out of step with popular sentiment"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 20 Mo | Major | Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Community size") [revised down estimate of numbers of British passport holders remaining in Kuwait - 2200 plus 500 Commonwealth and Irish] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Minor | Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Detained British citizens") ["Our present understanding of the location of British detainees"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Future of embassies") [MT alarmed by proposed softening of UK stance and apparent weakening of EC solidarity] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO ("Kuwait resistance movement") ["evolving... successful small scale attacks... less than unanimous support for return to the status quo ante"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Kuwait telegram to FCO (EC nationals) [all "except the British and French (and possibly the Germans ....) are now free to leave Iraq and Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's speech to officers in Odessa, 17 August") ["no longer seen by the Soviet people as the man calling the shots... that said, the speech deserves attention"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Gorbachev's speech, 17 August: foreign and defence aspects") ["Robust defence of Soviet external policy in the face of criticism and old thinking from some of the military"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Moscow telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: Soviet round-up, 21 August") [Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister talks with Shevardnadze] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 21 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Interceptions with Iraqi tanker: my telecons with Boyce (Emergency Unit)") ["Americans have been authorised to enter Omani territorial waters"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Aug 23 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Muscat telegram to FCO ("Vice-Chief of Defence Staff's visit") [account of requests to Sultan by Dick Cheney; Omanis fear being "swamped by US forces"] [declassified Jul 2017] |