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Defence: Andropov letter to MT (deployment of American medium-range nuclear missiles in UK) ["your Government does not value the maintaining of good relations with the Soviet Union... However we would not like to regard the situation arisen as irreversibl

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Defence: UKE Rome telegram to FCO ("INF: Andropov/Craxi measures") [mutual public recriminations over deployment of missiles in Europe] [declassified Jan 2014]

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Defence: MT message to Andropov (Geneva Arms Control Agreement) ["we cannot accept that you should maintain a monopoly of intermediate range missiles in Europe... We deeply regret your decisions to suspend the Geneva negotiations"] [declassified Jan 2014]

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Falklands: FCO briefing for MT ("The Prime Minister's Telephone Call to Signor Spadolini") [growing Italian opposition to sanctions] [declassified Dec 2012]

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Falklands: FCO briefing for MT (call with Spadolini) [arrangements for interpretation] [declassified Dec 2012]

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Defence: FCO telegram 866 to UKE Washington (1408Z) ("Italy/INF") [texts of Howe/Shultz messages to one another regarding Craxi proposal for "moratorium in NATO INF deployments should the Soviets be willing to return to the negotiating table"] [declassifi

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Defence: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("INF Deployment") [Howe "fully shares... [MT's] concern... [recent] developments can only be seen in Moscow as evidence of the progressive unravelling of the NATO 1979 dual-track decision"; advises personal call to Lubber

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Falklands: UKE Rome telegram 260 to FCO (1415Z) ("Arms Supplies to Argentina through Third Countries") [declassified Dec 2012]

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Falklands: UKE Bonn telegram 440 to FCO (1500Z) ("Falklands") [Genscher said FRG cabinet had taken no final decision on continuing sanctions; UKA explained Belgrano decision; German concern at Italian position following 12 May parliamentary debate in Rome

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Falklands: Schmidt & Spadolini joint declaration (follow-up to their talks in Hamburg on the Falklands conflict)

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