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PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Information Pack: British Policy Towards South Africa”) [need to “get across how much Britain is already doing to promote peaceful change”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland letter to MT (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting”) [resolutions on South Africa - apartheid, violence] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Prime Minister’s Statement on the World Political Scene”) [tighter structure needed, expand section on Non-Proliferation Treaty] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“CHOGM: Briefing Meeting”) [handling of situation in South Africa, bilaterals with other leaders] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Brunei Shell Petroleum”) [“The situation requires delicate handling”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to FCO (“South Africa on the eve of CHOGM”) [“Government’s worst handicap is a virtual loss of credibility among blacks”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa”) [Commonwealth Liaison Group] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO record of conversation (“Senior Officials Meeting 15 October 1985”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Health: FCO minute (“CHOGM: UNICEF - Global Immunisation”) [briefing ahead of possible CHOGM discussion] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Economy: Edward Seaga statement (joint IMF-Commonwealth Caribbean Group of Countries meeting) [need for reform] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Geoffrey Howe minute to Kenneth Baker (“CHOGM and the Gleneagles Agreement”) [“we do not have the power to limit individual freedoms in the sort of way others may have”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Kaunda) [how to avoid bloodshed in South Africa, question of sanctions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Mulroney) [Commonwealth action on South Africa meaningless unless UK involved, Mulroney suggests UK propose package of measures] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Energy: MT letter to Shell Petroleum (negotiations with Brunei government) [will take up the matter with the Sultan in Nassau] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Commonwealth Secretariat record of conversation (CHOGM first executive session) [Armstrong comments on draft record of MT's remarks] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Prime Minister Hawke) [no intention to embarrass or attack the UK; “it was necessary to be ready to talk about sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Brian Mulroney note to MT (executive session) [“this meeting is the ultimate test of the patience of any reasonable person of conservative persuasion!”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 17 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT statement (introductory remarks on the world political scene) [global security, arms control, South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT-Mugabe) [“Mugabe seemed ready to endorse violence”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communiqué (declaration on world order; declaration on South Africa; Benjamin Moloise execution) [“we resolve to redouble our support for the struggle to hasten the end of the abomination of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 19 Sa Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to MT (“South Africa”) [draft text expected, recomended changes] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President of Maldives) [requests for fishing rights, equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (“Additional Measures”) [trade, economic relationships with South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Bernard Ingham minute to MT (“Press conference this evening”) [“Your main problem will be to kill the charge that you have had to give a lot in order to get an agerement”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 20 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Note on sanctions against South Africa (“Commonwealth Declaration of Opposition to Apartheid”) [comparison of US, British and Canadian actions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Key Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“CHOGM: Heads of Government Retreat at Lyford Cay”) [MT “considerably disillusioned by the double standards applied by a number of the Commonwealth countries”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Sri Lanka: No.10 record of conversation (MT-President Jayewardene) [Tamil situation, need for military equipment from the UK] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Final Session: Briefing Meeting”) [arrangements] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: UKHC Nassau minute to No10 (“Tree Planting Ceremony at Roywest Trust Corporation”) [MT invited by RoyWest Trust Corporation] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM draft communique (“South Africa. The Commonwealth Accord”) [“apartheid must be dismantled now if a greater tragedy is to be averted”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: CHOGM Secretary minute (draft communique) [disarmament, small states, Southern Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell minute to FCO (“CHOGM: Parliamentary Statement”) [MT expected to have to give a statement, which should deal principally with discussions on South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (“Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting: South Africa: Group of Eminent Persons”) [nomination of group members] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Charles Powell telegram to UKE Pretoria (South African reactions to Commonwealth accord) [a rebuff by Both would be damaging to MT’s position and all she has worked for] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKDEL Nassau telegram to UKEs (“South Africa: The Commonwealth Accord”) [a major achievement, call for end to violence a considerable step forward] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKDEL Nassau (“South African reactions to the Commonwealth Accord”) [Botha “particularly critical of the six month time limit for concrete progress towards reform”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 22 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: CHOGM statement (“The Nassau Communique”) [commitments and resolutions] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to No10 (“Prime Minister’s Oral Statement: CHOGM and Visit to New York”) [draft statement focusing on discussions of South Africa] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Oct 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT draft statement to House of Commons (CHOGM and visit to New York) [“We were unanimous in our abhorrence of apartheid”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [surprise at requests for preferential EC fishing access; UK committed to provide equipment needed for new hospital] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 1 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“CHOGM: South Africa: Mr Gandhi”) [Gandhi’s attempts to correct impression that UK is intransigent and pro-South African] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 12 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to UN Associations of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (resolutions on South Africa) [“we do not support the extreme language of parts of the texts, the calls for sanctions”] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 13 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (“Maldives: Access to EC/Male Hospital”) [duty-free access to European market, High Commissioner’s visit to new hospital site] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 15 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to President Gayoom (EC Lome Convention, Male Hospital) [tariff system is complex so should raise issue with Brussels, will look into request regarding medical equipment] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 21 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Maldives President Gayoom message to MT (medical equipment for Male Hospital) [asks government to reconsider decision] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Nov 26 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Cabinet Office (“CHOGM: Commemorative Photographs”) [where to display] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 9 Mo Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: Shridath Ramphal message to Commonwealth Heads of Government (Consultative Group on International Monetary and Financial Issues) [suggested next meeting] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 85 Dec 30 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: MT message to President Gayoom (Male Hospital) [terms under which assistance could be granted] [declassified Dec 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 8 Tu Declassified documents Minor Archive (TNA) Commonwealth: FCO minute to Charles Powell (CHOGM photos) [suggested uses] [declassified Dec 2016]
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Files are multi-page PDFs from which most of the documents on the site are selected. All of Mrs Thatcher’s official files from No.10 are available in full on this site (paper copies are stored at the National Archives in the series PREM19), as well as most of those of Geoffrey Howe and Nigel Lawson as Chancellor (stored at TNA as series T639 and T640).

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