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Falklands: Haig peace proposals (0830Z) (following first visit to Buenos Aires) [annotated by MT] [released 2013]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Thatcher MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): THCR 1/20/3/47 f108
Editorial comments:

The text is identical with that Haig's team prepared on the plane from Buenos Aires. Accordingly this would appear to be the form in which the proposals arrived at No.10 with the Americans that morning.

Robert Armstrong's annotated copy of this document can be read here.

The US text, with interpretations private to the Americans, can be read here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (International organizations), Defence (Falklands)