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Falklands: State Department memcon (1300-1610Z) (Haig meets Junta - Haig, Walters; Galtieri, Anaya, Lami Dozo; Costa Mendez) [Haig warns: "There could be a clash within a matters of hours"; British would mine Argentinian ports] [published 2015]

Document type: Declassified documents
Source: Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015) p305-12
Editorial comments:

1300-1710. Excerpt from Foreign Relations of the United States 1981-89 (Volume XIII) Conflict in the South Atlantic (2015). Other documents from this volume can be seen here. Read the whole volume.

Published in 2015, but date of declassification unknown. The document may have been available for some time before inclusion in this volume.

The Argentine record of this conversation may be read here.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 8pp
Themes: British relations with the US, Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (Americas excluding USA), Defence (Falklands)