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Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3085
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 32)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2017 Jul 20
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 241
Any docs withheld? 11

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90 Oct 26 Fri Gulf War: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Prince Bandar") [concerns about possible private negotiations between Iraq-Kuwait-Saudi Arabia; reliability of European allies; Jordan; Syria; treatment of UK journalists in Saudi Arabia; Westland: Black Hawk trade prospects with Saudi Arabia] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sat Gulf War: MT letter to President Gorbachev (Soviet peace missions to Iraq) ["Saddam Hussein cannot be allowed to bargain over withdrawal"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 27 Sat Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Kohl) ["The Gulf: burden-sharing"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mon Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1767 to FCO (2207Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") [full text of demands including "immediate and unconditional withdrawal of all Iraqi forces"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mon Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia) ["Iraq/Kuwait: BBC" - Bandar complaint about lack of neutrality] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mon Gulf War: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia) [French forces in Saudi Arabia; Primakov peace mission to Iraq; military action and the risk of delay; role of the media] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mon Gulf War: FCO record of conversation (Hurd, Kaufman) [Labour Party's position in event of military action] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 29 Mon Gulf War: FCO briefing for MT ("Meeting of Ministers: Gulf") [latest UN resolution; European Council statements on Gulf & hostages; Soviet position; meeting with Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia; breaches of sanctions; French hostages; Kohl on sharing costs of military deployment; James Baker visit to Saudi Arabia; Mitterrand views; Military Staff Committee meeting; US deployments] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1778 to FCO (2149Z) ("Middle East issues: next steps at the UN") ["Washington thirsting for a whole series of single issue resolutions... would do better with a multi-purpose resolution"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1768 to FCO (0230Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution") ["At the last moment Yemenis decided to abstain... Americans... will do everything necessary to protect their citizens"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1769 to FCO (0249Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Security Council resolution: comment") ["resolution has now been adopted... bitterness aroused by this act of bad faith [Yemeni last-minute abstention] spread a good deal wider than the US delegation... last-minute delay brought about by the Soviet Union seems... to have actually strengthened [the resolution's] political effect"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1776 to FCO (0315Z) ("Ad hoc meeting of military staff committee (MSC): 29 October") ["new Security Council resolution adopted earlier in the day... present meeting, which took place by fortunate coincidence... clearly signalled the determination of the Five to work together until Iraq backed down"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: Cradock minute to Powell ("The Gulf") [US military planning] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 30 Tue Gulf War: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from Kuwaiti Crown Prince and Prime Minister") [draft MT reply] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 Wed Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 1793 to FCO (2133Z) ("Hostages held by Iraq") [De Cuellar dismisses overture from Willy Brandt to give UN status to his diplomatic mission to Iraq] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 Wed Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 2641 to FCO (0045Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: statements by the President and Baker") ["uncompromising"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 Wed Gulf War: MT letter to Sheikh Sa'ad al Sabah of Kuwait (Iraqi occupation) ["I share your outrage... We must maintain... international solidarity"] [declassified Jul 2017]
90 Oct 31 Wed Gulf War: Tom King PS letter to No.10 ("Iraq/Kuwait") [UK position paper] [declassified Jul 2017]