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PDF 86 Mar 3 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 letter to Howe PS ("Representations to the South African Government") [MT "thought that this matter had been handled most unsatisfactorily"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["South Africa": Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group; Cuban withdrawal from Namibia; MT "dissatisfaction about the way in which the recent representations of the South African Government were handled"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 4 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to Hans van den Broek (European Community Aide Memoire) ["Once again I appeal to European Governments to take a wider and more balanced view of what is happening in South and Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Johannesburg telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Alexandra funerals") [report on the service & attendance; "an atmosphere of extreme tension... and it may well be that violence will break out later today"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 5 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (lifting of the State of Emergency) ["I wanted you to know how warmly I welcome the important steps which you have just announced... we shall be working hard to persuade the Angolan Government to play its part"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 6 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Nicholas Elliott") [MT agrees to meeting to discuss his visit to S. Africa, Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons, and how to spend his inheritance] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 7 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Pretoria telegram to UKE Cape Town ("Commonwealth Group") [Tessa Solesby record of conversation with Lord Barber; MT interested in report of Groups' 'negotiating concept' proposal to S. African government] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 10 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe letter to Pik Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["both the tenor and substance of your government's response to the Group this week is likely to have a significant influence on the future course of the Group's mission"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 11 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [details of Group's 'negotiating concept' proposal; "would be helpful if the Prime Minister were to send another message to President Botha"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 13 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group") [overview of Group's visit to S. Africa] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 14 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with Lord Barber") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons visit to S. Africa & next steps] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 17 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe, Lord Barber) ["Prime Minister's meeting with Lord Barber": account of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group's visit to S. Africa/'possible negotiating concept'] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["The Group's report will clearly be of major importance... Your response to their 'possible negotiating concept' will be the determining factor in shaping that report and subsequent steps"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Reagan (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons) ["hope... that you might agree to add your support to their efforts at what could prove to be a critical moment"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 20 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: John Browne MP letter to MT (visit to South Africa) [proposals, in advance of meeting with MT] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 24 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO minute (internal) to Howe PS ("South Africa Revisited (13-20 March 1986)") [situation report; Charles Powell note: "Rather gloomy so far as the prospects for the Eminent Persons Group are concerned"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 25 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Commonwealth Fellowship Scheme for Black South Africans") [details of implementation; "We expect that the... scheme will make a valuable contribution to... convincing South African blacks of our good will"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 26 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Howe) ["Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons on South Africa": timing of next meeting] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: President Botha's forthcoming reply to MT; "prospects for a positive response to the Group's ideas rest on a knife edge"; proposal that Group defer meeting to maximise chances] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Mar 27 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Representations by the Twelve on the current unrest in South Africa") [Howe "has judged it right to agree... We have however proposed certain modifications on the line which the Dutch propose to take"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 6 Su Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Reagan letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group) ["I am pleased to support your efforts and will write to State President Botha, as you suggest, to urge him to continue the dialogue with the.... Group"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group: message from President Botha") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "it was an assurance from the... [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons] rather than the ANC which the South African Government would be needing in regard to cessation of violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 10 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group 'possible negotiating concept' and the cessation of violence) ["If... [we] could receive a definite assurance to the effect that violence would cease... [we] would be prepared to consider... the"possible negotiating concept" of the [CGEP]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 11 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 916 to FCO (2320Z) ("US/South Africa") [PW Botha letters to MT & Reagan; Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons - Lord Barber meeting with Shultz; Tokyo Economic Summit/S. Africa; ComGEP - Fraser/Obasanjo meeting with Shultz ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 14 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [timing, venue and level of Group Review Meeting: Howe reluctant to delay beyond July; MT reluctant to be rushed at the expense of a worthwhile outcome] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 15 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe minute to MT ("South Africa: CHOGM Accord - Krugerrands") [Howe in favour of legislative ban on imports; Channon's view "a legislative ban would be a clear breach of GATT" ] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 16 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Reply to President Botha") [draft reply: "have to make Botha feel that his efforts are appreciated... [but] bring home to him... that he must deal direct with the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group]"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Washington telegram 1004 to FCO (0430Z) ("US/South Africa: ComGEP") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: report on visit to US] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 18 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons' 'negotiating concept') ["worth making a serious effort... rising chorus of calls for economic sanctions... would encourage you to explore with the Group exactly what a suspension of violence would entail"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Hawke) [Libya; New Zealand ship visits; South Africa; South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone; Australian Bicentennial] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 21 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Reform in South Africa") [Howe flags up speech by Principal of University of Cape Town; No.10 notes speech to "depict an ideal and academic outcome rather than a practical one"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Ending of Pass Laws") [statement by Minister of Justice] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Reactions to Government Reform Announcements") ["broad welcome from Whites to the Government's proposals for abolition of the pass laws and influx control. Blacks are generally sceptical"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [Moberly record of conversation with Pik Botha: "began to bridle at... [implication] that the Group might not find a great deal of movement on the Government's part towards the ideas in their negotiating concept"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 24 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Pik Botha letter to co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons (Commonwealth Group's 'possible negotiating concept') ["if the South African Government does move along the lines suggested... and violence continues or increases... the Government may have no alternative but to take appropriate measures to control the violence"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 25 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("South African reply to Commonwealth Group") [report on the thinking behind Pik Botha letter] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 28 Mo Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to MT ("Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons") [date of review conference; MT: "what really bothers me is that the EPG do not seem interested in getting the best results - only in forcing the pace"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 Apr 29 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: President Botha letter to MT (Tokyo Economic Summit: statement on South Africa) ["[a joint statement by] the Heads of Government... could provide momentum to current efforts to bring an end violence and facilitate negotiations"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons message to Pik Botha ("South Africa") [calling for "genuine negotiation along the lines envisaged in our negotiating concept"; forwarded to MT by Ramphal by telegram of 6 May] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 1 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [Howe "greatly doubts... consensus at the [Tokyo Economic] Summit in favour of a statement on the lines proposed by [President Botha]"; advises MT to wait until after Summit to reply to Botha; draft instructions to Moberly] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO telegram to UKE Seoul ("ComGEP Review Meeting") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Governments' efforts to agree an early date] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 2 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: No.10 minute to Addison (internal) and Howe PS ("President Botha's Message") [relayed by airborne telegram en route to Tokyo Economic Summit: MT overrides Howe advice: request to revise instructions to Moberly - "too negative": still hopeful of securing a reference to South Africa in the Summit conclusions] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Nelson Mandela") [report on meeting of "two members of the Opposition Progressive Federal Party... with Nelson Mandela"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 6 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Co-Chairmen of the Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons letter to MT (bilateral exchanges) ["planning to return to Cape Town next week... We are concerned about [news of] bilateral exchanges with the South African Government at this time"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 8 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: FCO letter to No.10 ("South Africa") [civil service paper on "likely effects of political and economic developments in South Africa on the... [UK's] economic stake there"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 9 Fr Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: MT letter to President Botha (Tokyo Summit: declaration on South Africa) ["major practical difficulties in the way of agreeing a statement... short reference to South Africa at the joint press conference... very pleased the the [Commonwealth Eminent Persons] Group has now decided to return to Southern Africa"] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 13 Tu Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("ComGEP visit to South Africa") [Commonwealth Group of Eminent Persons: Ramphal account of Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 14 We Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Commonwealth Group") [Ambassador Moberly record of conversation with Lord Barber: Group's meeting with Pik Botha] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: UKE Cape Town telegram to FCO ("Speech by President Botha") [views of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the speech; analysis; suggested line to take] [declassified Feb 2016]
PDF 86 May 15 Th Declassified documents Major Archive (TNA) South Africa: South African Embassy letter to No.10 (Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group and Speech by President Botha) [update on Group's meetings; transcript of speech] [declassified Feb 2016]

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