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1990 Sep 1 - 1990 Sep 16
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3080
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 27)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 299
Any docs withheld? 7

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90 Sep 4 Tu Major Gulf War: Ambassador of Japan letter to Powell (Japanese Foreign Ministry release on Japan and the Middle East situation) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Amir of Bahrain letter to MT (latest developments in the region) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Attorney General's Office letter to Ministry of Defence (Iraq: legal advice on the personal position of ships' masters evading the blockade) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 5 We Major Gulf War: Butler briefing for MT ("Cabinet, 6 September: Foreign Affairs") [Iraq/Kuwait] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Cecil Parkinson minute for MT ("Evacuation of Women and Children from Iraq and Kuwait") ["overriding concern must be to get as many of the women and children out of Kuwait as we can as quickly as possible. ... we must accept the cost now"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Chancellor's PS letter to Charles Powell ("Secretary Brady's Visit to London") [US plans to help "front-line states"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Gulf Crisis: Meeting of Ministers") [Diplomatic, Military, Oil] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tu Major Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Secretary Brady") [Gulf crisis: military burden sharing, aid to countries affected by sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Charles Powell briefing for MT ("Meeting with Sir Antony Acland") [stress "the overriding importance of getting ourselves involved very early on in American thinking and planning about possible military options"] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("British Wives and Children in Kuwait") [attempt to get them out by bus convoy to Baghdad] [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th Major Gulf War: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [MT increasingly certain Saddam would not leave Kuwait "unless thrown out"; Hurd "more inclined to see a chance that sanctions would succeed"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th Major Gulf War: Charles Powell record of conversation (MT, Hurd) [MT increasingly certain Saddam would not leave Kuwait "unless thrown out"; Hurd "more inclined to see a chance that sanctions would succeed"] [declassified Jul 2018]
90 Sep 6 Th Major Gulf War: Chief Secretary to the Treasury letter to Secretary of State for Defence ("Gulf Crisis - Financial Issues: Debate 6-7 September") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 3 Mo Major Gulf War: Department of Transport minute to Ministry of Defence ("US Requirement for Roll On/Roll Off Ships") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tu Major Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("US Burden Sharing Initiative: Call by Brady, Mulford and Eagleburger") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 6 Th Minor Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell (Deputy Foreign Minister of Tunis visit to London) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 5 We Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Possible Message from the Prime Minister to HMA Kuwait") [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 5 We Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (Helsinki summit: MT draft message for Gorbachev) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 4 Tu Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (MT's draft reply to the President of Nauru: developments in the Middle East) [declassified Dec 2016]
90 Sep 2 Su Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell (NATO meeting: the US defence requirements for operations in the Middle East) [declassified Dec 2016]