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1990 Sep 6 - 1990 Sep 13
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3081
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 28)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 328
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90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("The Gulf: Saudi reactions to Bush/Gorbachev summit") ["Prince Bandar... very alarmed at the constant harping on a peaceful solution"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We Major Gulf War: UKE Amman record of conversation ("Message from the Prime Minister") [UK Ambassador, King Hussein: "The King has made no secret... of his opposition to foreign intervention"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We Major Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("Gulf crisis: Israel") [Charles Powell, Benjamin Netanyahu] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: FCO record of conversation ("Secretary of State's meeting with Baker: Gulf") [Hurd, US Secretary of State] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th Major Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("OD meeting: the Gulf") [additional British forces; military and financial aid burden-sharing; effect of sanctions on British companies] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: No.10 letter to Department of Trade & Industry ("Prime Minister's meeting with King Hussein") ["excerpt dealing with the revocation of export licenses for the export of arms to Jordan"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th Major Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Gulf crisis: Ministerial meeting") [additional British forces; advice to British citizens in Kuwait; assistance for families of hostages] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: President of the Tunisian Republic letter to MT (Gulf crisis) [appointment of a Special Envoy to UK and proposals for a settlement of the crisis] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We Major Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2218 to FCO (2237Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["[US] sceptical about an Iran/Iraq oil deal, and inclined to play down the Khameini statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 12 We Major Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2205 to FCO (0545Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: President's address to Congress") ["A confident and determined address... determination to do whatever may be necessary to reverse Iraq's invasion of Kuwait"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Yemen/Saudi Border") [Prince Bandar request for papers] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Aug 31 Fr Major Gulf War: President de Klerk letter to MT (detention of UK & other nations' citizens by Iraq) ["Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 8 Sa Major Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1208 to FCO (0225Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") ["text of the draft statement"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: Peter Lilley letter to Hurd (telecommunications lines with Iraq & Kuwait) ["should be maintained"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 9 Su Major Gulf War: No.10 minute to MT ("Helsinki summit") ["skirted round the question of possible use of force: and it was fairly clear that Gorbachev was not ready to subscribe to this"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for ground force reinforcements to Saudi Arabia") ["if we are just thinking about the political impact... there is no doubt that tanks play very well. But if it came to a conflict and the Challenger did not perform, the down-side risk would be very much greater than with artillery"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2164 to FCO (0044Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Bush/Gorbachev summit") ["focus will be on the Gulf, and on possible differences... on the use of force; "Agenda will also include other regional issues, Europe and the Soviet economy"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th Major Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Tom King, Chief of Defence Staff, Chief of the General Staff, & others) ["Additional British forces for the Gulf": MT reservations about efficacy of Challenger 1 tank] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: King PS letter to No.10 (temporary deployment of Royal Navy patrol craft to Cyprus Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs)) ["in the light of the increased terrorist theat to the SBAs from pro-Iraqi/Libyan terrorist groups"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1228 to FCO (2105Z) ("Humanitarian assistance to refugees") [UK Ambassador to the UN, UN Secretary General] [declassified Jul 2017]