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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)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 328
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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 11 Tu Major Gulf War: Peter Lilley PS letter to No.10 (Turkish barriers to EC textile exports) [Lilley looking for 'quid pro quo' deal with Turkey] [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 10 Mo Major Gulf War: Patrick Mayhew letter to Hurd ("Gulf crisis: request from the Amir") ["the request... does not embrace the use of force beyond that necessary to enforce economic sanctions... a further request would be needed"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 7 Fr Major Gulf War: No.10: Policy Unit letter to Potter (oil prices) [John Wybrew note: "Talk of an impending oil crisis is ill-founded unless war breaks out"] [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 9 Su Major Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation ("Iraq") [Charles Powell, Professor Bernard Lewis: advice on the Gulf crisis] [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 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 Minor Gulf War: No.10 letter to Robert Hayward MP (meeting with the Prime Minister) [scheduling] [declassified Jul 2017]
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: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis: Morocco") ["account of the meeting [of] Maghreb Foreign Ministers on 2 September": search for a peaceful solution] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Sep 13 Th Major Gulf War: No.10 letter to Hurd PS ("Gulf crisis") [cover letter for Bush message to MT (retained) following his meeting with Gorbachev at Helsinki Summit to discuss Iraq] [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 11 Tu Major Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("The Gulf: meeting with Ministers") [Helsinki summit; sanctions; Emir of Kuwait; aid; additional forces] [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 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 12 We Major Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Additional British forces for the Gulf") [meeting to discuss MT concerns about reliability of Challenger tank] [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 Major Gulf War: Ministry of Defence record of conversation ("Force deployment to the Gulf") [Air Vice Marshal Wilson, General Schwarzkopf] [declassified Jul 2017]