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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Title |
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| 90 Sep 12 We | Major | Gulf War: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Meetings on the Gulf") [MT asked to approve less frequent meetings of Cabinet Office Group "Now that we may be entering the long haul"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 12 We | Major | Gulf War: Chairman of HM Customs & Excise letter to Peter Lilley ("Iraq/Kuwait sanctions: enforcement and co-ordination") ["critical that we should receive the earliest possible intelligence and be consulted quickly"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 12 We | Major | Gulf War: Chairman of the European Democratic Group speech (Strasbourg, 12 September: Gulf crisis) ["Prompt and courageous action by the United States have protected a vital "out of area" European Community interest which - let's be frank -we were simply not organised to protect on our own"] |
| 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 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: Charles Powell note to MT (update) [overnight telegrams; "Excellent press coverage of your speech"; Bush to call at 12.30; 300 women & children flown out last night; UN Sec Gen meeting with Tariq Aziz; sanctions] [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: Embassy of Israel press release ("Reply by the Ambassador of Israel to questions asked regarding Minister of State FCO Mr W Waldegrave's remarks concerning Israel and the Arab-Israel conflict during the House of Commons special session on the Kuwait crisis (6-7 September 1990)") [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 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 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 | Major | Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq-Kuwait emergency: use of 0898 system") ["The signs are that the public has accepted that no profit will be retained by the FCO, and that the system was introduced because there was no other way of meeting public demand"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 7 Fr | Major | Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq-Kuwait: counter-propaganda") [objectives and methodology] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 12 We | Major | Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait: Tunisian proposals") ["an "Arab solution"... unacceptable in many respects"] [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 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 9 Su | Major | Gulf War: King Fahd of Saudi Arabia letter to MT (protective equipment against chemical weapons for the Saudi armed forces) ["I greatly appreciate the directive which was issued to British Aerospace plc to secure this equipment urgently"] [declassified Jul 2017] |
| 90 Sep 10 Mo | Major | Gulf War: King minute to MT ("Options for further UK reinforcements to the Gulf") [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 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] |