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PDF 82 Apr 3 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (0730Z) (Carrington-French FM Cheysson phone call) [Cheysson offers help; Japanese being difficult at UN; Soviets talking with Argentina] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 319 to FCO (1615Z) ("Falklands") [conversation with Foreign Minister Cheysson] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 10 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 334 to FCO (1000Z) ("Falkland Islands: French Press") [Le Matin claims Mitchell, Love and Heathcote were working for British intelligence in Buenos Aires] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 348 to FCO (1415Z) ("Falklands: French press comment 14 April") [persistent criticism of British policy from Suzannet, London correspondent of Le Figaro] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 363 to FCO (1430Z) ("Falklands: Reporting on Argentina") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 19 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 367 to FCO (1703Z) ("Falklands: French Opinion") ["firm lead" from Mitterrand to support Britain; under no great pressure to change that from French public opinion] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 21 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Paris signal to MODUK (0800Z) ("French Air Force/Aeronavale Assistance to Royal Air Force") [practice combat training to take place as discreetly as possible 22/23 Apr] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 22 Th Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 380 to FCO (1644Z) ("Falklands") [Argentinian politicians in Paris, including Communists] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 26 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 380 to FCO (1645Z) ("South Georgia: French Reactions") [Gutmann questioning British account of attack on the Santa Fé; Quai saying that these events confirm "even more strongly the urgent need for a negotiation"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 27 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 397 to FCO (1711Z) ("Falklands: French Opinion") [South Georgia - varied reactions; Le Quotidien says the affair a reminder of the almost forgotten principle of national honour] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Apr 30 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: BRITDEFAT Paris signal to MODUK (1105Z) (French Air Force/Aeronavale Assistance to Royal Air Force) [French Defence Department fear 22/23 Apr practice about to be raised in Parliament; BRITDEFAT seeks defensive brief] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 411 to FCO (0720Z) ("Falklands: French Press Reaction") [dominating front pages, talk of war; papers of right and left seeing Britain as fighting for honour and principle] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 417 to FCO (1730Z) ("Falklands") [French and Dutch Government responses to sinking of the Belgrano - "extreme concern" of both ministers, Dutch called it "a dreadful incident"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 419 to FCO (1746Z) ("Falklands: French Position") [French minister saying France working for resumption of negotiations; Quai 'consternation' at sinking of General Belgrano] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 421 to FCO (1100Z) ("Falklands: French Attitude") [press reports Mitterrand on 4 May criticising Argentine methods as contrary to international law; France and others might intervene when he saw some chance of influencing events] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 220 to UKE Paris (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands") [visit by Gutmann to London, talks with Acland and Palliser; French apprehensions, need to show commitment to negotiations; Council of Ministers would make statement tomorrow; asked for "more 'theatre'" - eg, a televised appeal to Galtieri] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 425 to FCO (1725Z) ("Argentina: Import Ban") [French position "shifting somewhat" following events of recent days; they still support "basic UK position" but require UK to offer "convincing gesture" in favour of negotiated solution] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 427 to FCO (1742Z) ("French Council of Ministers Statement on Falklands Conflict") [Gutmann interprets statement - "stressed heavily the public relations aspect", "spectacular peace initiative needed"; text of statement] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 428 to FCO (1845Z) ("Falklands: French Press") ["almost unanimous ... shock and dismay at the sinking of the Belgrano with the consequent loss of life"; nearly all want ceasefire] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 430 to FCO (1715Z) ("French Policy on Falklands") [conversation with PM Mauroy, desirability of British initiative to bring about negotiations] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 454 to FCO (1845Z) ("Falklands: French Attitude") [Cheysson: unprecedented EC solidarity with Britain over the Falklands at "the moment that Britain chooses to break just over a few hundred thousand ecus"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 12 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 477 to FCO (1845Z) ("Falklands: French Attitude") ["some steadying of French opinion in the last few days"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Pym, Cheysson) (1535Z) [update on negotiations; EC arms sales to Latin America; Cheysson personally helpful] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 501 to FCO (1745Z) ("Falklands: Cheysson leak in Le Figaro") [leak of Dorin memorandum - "Malouines: Les Lecons d'un Fiasco"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (Pym, Cheysson) (1535Z) [with FCO briefing for Pym] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 15 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 505 to FCO (1745Z) ("Falklands: Cheysson leak") [press attaks on Cheysson and Dorin] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 527 to FCO (1630Z) ("Falkland Islands") [suggests close contact over UN Security Council; case for EC broad gesture to mend forces with Latin America "at a very early stage after any military action"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 21 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO telegram 283 to UKE Paris (1105Z) ("Falkland Islands: Security Council") [welcome Gutmann's suggestion of direct touch over handling of Security Council where French representative "has so often been unhelpful to us in the past"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 22 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 537 to FCO (1110Z) ("Falklands: EC Import Ban") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 541 to FCO (1700Z) ("Falklands: French Attitude") [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 544 to FCO (1705Z) ("Falklands: Security Council Resolutions") [British rejection of Irish and Panamian drafts; French showed no disposition to defend the idea of a truce] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris letter to FCO ("Falklands Crisis: Attitude of the PCF") ["broadly neutral in the first two weeks" then "stridently anti-British" from mid-April, following Soviet briefing, although Marchais warning against attacking any French island] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 May 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: Michel Debré letter to UK Ambassador Paris ("À propos des Malouines") [expresses approval and admiration for British policy] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 1 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1983 to FCO (2245Z) ("Falklands: US Television Interview with President Mitterrand") [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Major Archive (Thatcher MSS) Falklands: FCO telegram 319 to UKE Paris (1430Z) ("Falklands: Conversations with French and German Senior Officials") [Acland and Pallise update French and German officials on Falklands situation; France and Germany want hostilities to end "before a major battle, not after it"] [released 2013]
PDF 82 Jun 2 We Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram saving 54 to FCO ("Falklands: French Reactions") ["few calls for Britain to stop the fighting"] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 4 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) G7/Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1630Z) (Versailles summit “Initial conversation between President Mitterrand and the Prime Minister”) [Mitterrand foresaw "ineluctable logical process" following invasion, ending with recapture of Port Stanley; he hoped after that "a new logic of events would be launched"] [declassified 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 5 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UKE Paris telegram 596 to FCO (1055Z) ("Versailles Summit: French Press Comment") [press accounts of Reagan-MT bilateral relied on advance briefing to suggest he intended to "preach moderation", only Le Figaro noted that the President did not in fact speak on such lines] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 9 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: UK Ambassador Paris letter to FCO ("Falklands: Future French Policy") [support will continue, but line will change sharply once Port Stanley taken] [declassified Dec 2012]
PDF 82 Jun 12 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Falklands: FCO record of conversation (1905Z) (Pym-French FM Cheysson phone call) [Mitterrand's sympathies to MT over events of past two days; Middle East - De Cuellar remarks "excessive aggression of the Israelis"] [declassified Sec 2012]
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