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)
| Document type: | File list item |
|---|---|
| Source: | TNA, PREM19 series |
| Release date: | 2017 Jul 20 |
| Classification: | Top Secret |
| Page count: | 328 |
| Any docs withheld? |
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| 90 Sep 7 Fr | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2179 to FCO (2250Z) ("Gulf crisis: US/Israeli contacts") ["Israelis assure Administration that they will maintain low profile, but seek increased US assistance on intelligence and arms supplies"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 8 Sa | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2183 to FCO (0010Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["The mood is not bellicose. The President has support because he has been seen to be firm yet measured, and to have secured unprecedented international backing"] [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 12 We | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2217 to FCO (2235Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Cheney and Powell before the Senate Armed Services committee") ["No surprises, and little hard information. Clear Senatorial sense of grievance against Japan/Germany... Burdensharing was a key element"] [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 13 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2231 to FCO (2240Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: the US domestic dimension") ["public support... has solidified... [but] a growing mood in Congress that all the Allies should be doing more"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 14 Fr | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2232 to FCO (0001Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Iranian statement") ["may be based on a misunderstanding of US ideas for regional security arrangements... [but] Khameini's words could be taken... as the green light to carry out terrorist attacks against US forces"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 14 Fr | Major | Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2234 to FCO (0053Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: legal basis for further military operations") [US "dismayed that we had gone ahead with the Kuwaitis on our own"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 7 Fr | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS Geneva telegram 622 to FCO (1004Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: ICRC") ["Iraq refuses ICRC access to Kuwait and to foreign nationals in Iraq"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 7 Fr | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1195 to FCO (0220Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Secretary General's meeting with Tariq Aziz") ["he had hoped to be able to start a diplomatic process leading to the beginning of the implementation of SCR 660. This had not come to fruition"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 8 Sa | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1207 to FCO (0355Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") ["A very helpful development"] [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 8 Sa | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1212 to FCO (0315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: non-aligned meeting") ["the aim was to concert positions with a view to a possible non-aligned initiative"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 11 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1222 to FCO (0330Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council action") ["Americans... for a further Security Resolution... tightening the screw against Iraq"] [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] |
| 90 Sep 13 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1244 to FCO (0125Z) ("Appointment of relief Co-ordinator") ["Secretary-General today announced the appointment of Sadruddin Aga Khan as his personal representative for humanitarian assistance"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 13 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1249 to FCO (0310Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 13 Th | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1250 to FCO (0315Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: foodstuffs") [text of draft UN resolution] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 11 Tu | Major | Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 628 to FCO (1026Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: International Organisation for Migration") ["IOM pleased by response so far to their appeal for funds to transport evacuees"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 8 Sa | Major | Gulf War: Waldegrave PS letter to No.10 ("Humanitarian assistance of refugees from Iraq") ["[MT] takes the view that it is for the... [UN] itself to head a fund-raising drive... she has reservations about the constant recourse to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for finance"] [declassified Jul 2017] |