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83 Jan 18 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Pym minute to MT ("Law of the Sea") [reciprocating agreement on deepsea mining] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 17 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Law of the Sea: Merchant Shipping") [Reciprocating States Agreement; deepsea mining; risk to UK of not signing up to Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 18 Fr	Declassified documents	Minor	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Caroline Stephens to Coles & Ingham (Il Geornale newspaper article about the Prime Minister) [useful for Fanfani visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 22 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Pym minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [case for participation in the Preparatory Commission] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 23 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 minute to MT ("UK Law of the Sea Convention") [Reciprocating States Agreement; MT request for tutorial] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 letter to Pym PS ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [participation in preparatory commission; negotiating tactics; Reciprocating States Agreement] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 3 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [comments on Pym minute of 22 Feb; "we need to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep sea mining regime... changes will, at best, be a long process"; financial implications for UK of US non-participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 13 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT message to Chancellor Kohl (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["urge that the Federal Republic should not take a decision in favour of signature... so long as the difficulties of the mining regime remain"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Jan 13 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Ridley PS letter to Cabinet Office ("Ministerial Group on Maritime Affairs") [reconstitution; forthcoming business; UN Law of the Sea Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 29 Th	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Provisional Understanding regarding Deep Seabed matters") ["Mr Rifkind.. would not recommend that the... [UK] should sign with the... [US] alone without further consideration of where the balance of advantage lies"; MT approves this approach] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Aug 20 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: UN Secretary General Pérez de Cuellar letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["Signature of the Convention does not prejudge a future decision on its ratification"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Oct 24 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lange letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["signature binds the... [UK] to nothing and it gives you an opportunity to play an effective role in changing what you do not like"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["You urged that the UK should sign... and draw attention to the advantages offered by it in areas other than seabed mining"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 2 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Hawke letter to MT (UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["it is only by signing... and participating fully in the work of the Preparatory Commission that Western countries will able to continue to influence the development of the Law of the Sea"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 Policy Unit minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [notes the risks of signing, but endorses FCO advice to do so; MT rejects advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Prime Minister Lubbers letter to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") ["Signing the Convention does not imply acceptance of the seabed regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Future Options") ["the question is whether... [UK] interests would be better served... inside the Convention process as a signatory, or outside it as a non-signatory"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 6 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: No.10 note to MT ("UNLOSC") [UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; MT notes she is strongly opposed to signing] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 12 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Taoiseach FitzGerald letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["probably the most significant achievement of the... [UN] in recent years and one which should not be diminshed by lack of support"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 14 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) ["I believe we must strenuously urge the FRG, Italy and Belgium not to sign... signature... will undermine our ability to negotiate a seabed mining regime"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Buchanan-Smith PS letter to Tim Renton PS ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [draft paper on advantages/disadvantages to UK: proposed amendment regarding seabed mining regime] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: British Maritime League letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea") ["we should sign... ratification can wait for several years... with the aim of attracting the... [US] to reverse its decision not to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 26 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Norman Lamont letter to Tim Renton (UN Law of the Sea Convention) [draft paper on advantages/disadvantages to UK: proposed amendment regarding seabed mining regime] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fr	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Charles Powell annotation: "[Howe] recommends against the signature, but in favour of allowing the Community to sign"; MT requests further advice from Treasury & Energy Secretary] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: FCO telegram to Flash Dublin ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Howe "notes that it is not proposed that the UK should sign... still has reservations about the idea of Community signature... [but] concludes that the balance of advantage lies with not blocking [it]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNLOSC)") [MT "was... concerned about Community competence on taxation and on the Continental shelf": points addressed; Howe "proposes... to seek amendments along the lines requested by Mr Walker and Mr Lamont, and provided that these are agreed, to indicate that the UK would not make objection to Community signature"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["three of the countries most likely to be involved in deep seabed mining have decided not to sign... There should therefore be a strong incentive for the international community as a whole to accept the need for improvements of the sort both our countries have worked for"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lubbers (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 11 Tu	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Lange (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime... was not acceptable to us in its present form... we decided that we could not sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 12 We	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: MT letter to Taoiseach FitzGerald (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime was unacceptable in its present form... it was not possible for us to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 31 Mo	Declassified documents	Major	Archive (TNA)	Foreign Policy: President Reagan letter to MT (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["Your decision [not to sign]... marks a very positive step forward in applying market principles to... the ocean's vast resources"] [declassified Jan 2014]

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