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1988 Apr 6 - 1994 Jun 15
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/4561
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion; UK/Afghanistan relations: internal situation) (Part 8)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Dec 28
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 285
Any docs withheld? 18

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90 Feb 20 Tu Major Afghanistan: Ambassador Zamyatin letter to MT (Afghan Settlement) [latest Soviet proposals] [released Jul 2018]
90 May 14 Mo Major Afghanistan: Charles Powell minute to MT ("Afghanistan") [FCO stocktake, 14 months after Soviet withdrawal, and next steps] [released Jul 2018]
90 Oct 16 Tu Major Afghanistan: Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Mujahedin Attacks on Kabul") [report] [released Jul 2018]
88 Apr 15 Fr Major Afghanistan: FCO telegram 314 to UKE Islamabad (1800Z) ("Afghanistan: Visit of Pakistani Acting Foreign Minister to London") [record of conversation: Lord Glenarthur, Noorani] [released Jul 2018]
88 Oct 21 Fr Major Afghanistan: FCO telegram 874 to UKE Islamabad (1750Z) ("Afghanistan: Call by Sayed Gaelani on Lord Glenarthur") [record of conversation] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jun 28 Tu Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [Howe & MT in disagreement over UK support for UN-sponsored intra-Afghan dialogue] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jun 16 Th Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [proposed key UK objectives; MT rejects idea of UK support for intra-Afghan dialogue on post-Soviet government] [released Jul 2018]
90 Mar 7 We Major Afghanistan: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [case for ignoring letter from President Najibullah to MT] [released Jul 2018]
89 Dec 22 Fr Major Afghanistan: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [correspondence with Sandy Gall: arms supplies to resistance] [released Jul 2018]
90 Aug 28 Tu Major Afghanistan: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [report on recent developments] [released Jul 2018]
89 Nov 2 Th Major Afghanistan: Hurd PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by President of the Afghan Interim Government, 8-11 November") [Hurd to meet with Mojaddedi; MT decides not to] [released Jul 2018]
89 Jan 6 Fr Major Afghanistan: Lord Glenarthur letter to Archie Hamilton (Afghanistan: security arrangements for British Embassy staff following Soviet withdrawal) [MT keen on proposal to deploy small team of soldiers as armed protection; Hamilton rejects idea as unworkable] [released Jul 2018]
88 May 3 Tu Major Afghanistan: MT message to President Zia-ul-Haq (1700Z) (Signing of Geneva Accords on Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) [commendation of Pakistan's role; aid for refugee relief and resettlement] [released Jul 2018]
88 May 2 Mo Major Afghanistan: MT message to Prime Minister Junejo (1600Z) (Signing of Geneva Accords on Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan) [commendation of Pakistan's role; Afghan internal political settlement] [released Jul 2018]
89 Jan 27 Fr Major Afghanistan: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Kabul Embassy") [MT decides to withdraw Embassy staff] [released Jul 2018]
89 Jan 12 Th Major Afghanistan: No.10 letter to Howe PS (Afghanistan: armed protection for UK Embassy staff) [MT "tends to the view that, if the staff of other major embassies... have armed protection, then our staff should have it too"] [released Jul 2018]
89 Jan 4 We Major Afghanistan: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Afghanistan: Threat to the British Embassy and the British Community in Kabul") [MT "has commented that we should co-ordinate very closely with other Western missions on... possible evacuation"] [released Jul 2018]
90 Mar 9 Fr Major Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation ("Afghanistan") [Charles Powell, Yahya Massoud, Sandy Gall: Pakistan & the Afghan resistance] [released Jul 2018]
89 Jan 19 Th Major Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Afghanistan": UK embassy, post-Soviet withdrawal] [released Jul 2018]
88 Jun 10 Fr Major Afghanistan: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Afghanistan: Soviet Withdrawal") [conflicting reports over possible halting of withdrawal due to Pakistan violations of the Geneva accord] [released Jul 2018]