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PREM19/3441
Middle East (Situation in the Middle East: Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) (Part 36)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Top Secret - Cab One
Page count: 304
Any docs withheld? 14
Themes: Media, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Foreign policy (Middle East), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (general), Security services & intelligence

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Date Value Title
91 Jan 4 Fr Major Gulf War: Powell minute for Prime Minister ("Gulf") [schedule of meeting arranged] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 4 Fr Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Prime Minister ("The Threat to British Civil Aviation in the Event of a Conflict in the Gulf") ["I hope that it will be soon possible to recruit a suitable team to take on the inspection of overseas airports"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 4 Fr Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Prime Minister ("Iraq/Kuwait: Sustaining National Unity") ["it is encrasingly important for colleagues to take opportunities..to explain Government policy to as many sections of the public as possible"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 4 Fr Minor Gulf War: Department for transport minute for Prime Minister ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [Major assents to proposal] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 5 Sa Major Gulf War: UKE Washington telegram 35 to FCO (0041Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait") ["Bush remains termined to use force if he has to...the Administration will need to continue to watch congressional opinion closely, but early action to constrain the President is unlikely"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 5 Sa Major Gulf War: UKMIS New York telegram 22 to FCO (0041Z) ("Iraq/Kuwait: Gulf Crisis") ["French permanent representative dismissive of Mitterrand's reported support for a Security Council Meeting before 15 January Deadline"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 5 Sa Major Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("US/Iraqi Talks") ["importance of the Americans keeping open the possibility of a direct talk with Saddamn and of not again allowing themselves to be boxed in by over-attachment to particular dates""] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 5 Sa Major Gulf War: Powell letter to Department of Transport ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [Prime Minister content with the recommendation to "take action under the Marine and Aviation Insurance (War Risks) Act 1952 to re-insure British aircraft operating to the Middle East"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 6 Su Major Gulf War: UKE Baghdad telegram to FCO ("Iraqi Refusal of Invitation by the Twelve") ["they presumably calculate that there remains the possibility that Tariq Aziz's refusal to go to Luxembourg will persuade one or two European Governments to break ranks and send envoys to Baghdad"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 6 Su Major Gulf War: UKE Riyadh telegram to FCO ("Panorama") [Saudi concern] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Iraq/Kuwait: Message to President Kaunda") [suggested wording for the letter to President Kaunda from the Prime Minister] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("The Gulf Crisis: a Just War") ["arguments and attempts to answer theological reservations over resort to force"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to Powell ("US Request for an Aircraft Carrier for the Red Sea") [difficulties concerning the implementation of e embargo in the Red Sea] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: Chief Whip's Office record of conversation (Energy Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Defence Secretary & others) ("Gulf: Media Arrangements") [timing, role of No.10 Press Secretary, backbenchers] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: Attorney General Office letter to MOD (Stolen Laptop) [possible reward for return or immunity for theft] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Gulf: Briefing the Opposition") [Foreign Secretary favors a new meeting between the PM and Mr Kinnock after the PM's visit to the Gulf; "you might also like to know that Mr Baker...was seeing Mr Kinnock this afternoon"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Powell ("Foreign Secretary's Meeting with Secretary Baker, 4 January: Tete-a-Tete") [timing; Mr baker's call on the Prime Minister next weekend; aircraft carrier in the Red Sea] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: FCO minute for Department for Transport ("The Gulf: War Risk Insurance for Airlines") [timing to give notice to the airlines of the war-risk insurance premium to be paid from 15 January; "this should be left to the last possible moment"] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 7 Mo Major Gulf War: No.10 minute for MOD ("Gulf Briefings") [group briefing arrangements] [declassified Jul 2018]
91 Jan 8 Tu Major Gulf War: FCO letter to Powell ("Acts of Atrocity in Kuwait") [Information Department ask to have a look to the photograph album given to the PM] [declassified Jul 2018]