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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: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Visit of Secretary Baker") ["Saudis insist that assistance already being given by them equals, and possibly exceeds, that requested by Baker"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Force deployment to the Gulf") [Air Vice Marshal Wilson, General Schwarzkopf] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Major Gulf War: Charles Powell note for MT ("Gulf crisis") [overnight telegrams, especially Baker's debriefing of NATO on Helsinki Summit; "Our European allies do not come out too well"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: John Maples letter to Peter Lilley ("Iraq and Kuwait sanctions: insurance") ["prohibit[ion of] payments into blocked Iraqi and Kuwaiti accounts" ] [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 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 11 Tu Major Gulf War: Cradock minute to Powell ("Resupply of our Kuwait Embassy") [use of Special Operations] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: President Ershad letter to MT (International Organisation for Migration: aid for Bangladesh) [letter of thanks for UK contribution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Amman telegram to FCO ("Iraq/Kuwait: King Hussein's visit to Baghdad: 5/6 September") ["likely to continue with his diplomatic efforts to promote a solution... had spoken very frankly to Saddam... there was no choice... if it came to a war, Iraq would be defeated"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: UKE Doha telegram to FCO (Prime Minister's speech in the House of Commons Debate) [Emir of Qatar offers congratulations and support] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Major Gulf War: Hurd minute to MT ("Gulf: future force levels") ["If Saddam Hussein is to be persuaded to withdraw, we have to keep building up the pressure... We are likely to come under pressure on costs"] [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]
90 Sep 8 Sa Major Gulf War: Charles Powell minute for MT ("Gulf crisis") [US/Soviet meeting in Helsinki; air blockade; additional UK forces] [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 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 7 Fr Major Gulf War: UKE Moscow record of conversation ("Iraq/Kuwait: call on Belonogov") [UK amabssador to the USSR, Permanent Representative of the USSR to the UN] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Gulf crisis: US burden-sharing initiative") ["what... [MT] might say about a UK contribution to assistance for Egypt, Turkey and Jordan when she telephones the President"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Minor Gulf War: MT letter to President of Nauru (developments in the Middle East) [reply] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 11 Tu Minor Gulf War: No.10 letter to Robert Hayward MP (meeting with the Prime Minister) [scheduling] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 10 Mo Minor Gulf War: Treasury letter to Cabinet Office ("AHGG: financial sanctions") ["payments from blocked accounts to Iraqi students in the UK... [and] instructions from Iraq to amend letters of credit"] [declassified Jul 2017]