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1990 Nov 20 - 1991 Nov 11
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/3213
Prime Minister (Resignation of Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2016 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 215
Any docs withheld? 2

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90 Nov 26 Mo Major Resignation: Bob Gates message to Charles Powell (parting thoughts) [“terribly saddened by the turn of events in London”] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: Prime Minister Kaifu statement (parting thoughts) [“a rare leader of firm convictions”]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: India PM Shekhar letter to MT (parting thoughts) ["deep appreciation"] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: New Zealand PM Bolger letter to MT (parting thoughts) ["many things for which we are grateful"] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: Luxembourg PM Santer letter to MT (parting thoughts) ["a most open and frank interlocutress"] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: Colombian President Gaviria letter to MT (parting thoughts) [her "fundamental ideas … are precisely the parameters around which a new world order is being built"] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 27 Tu Major Resignation: MT telegram to Bob Gates (thanks) [“the greatest imaginable privilege to have worked closely with the United States”] [declassified 2016]
90 Nov 29 Th Major Resignation: Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda letter to MT (parting thoughts) ["it required a mother to put an end to the carnage" (in Zimbabwe)] [declassified 2016]