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1982 Apr 30 - 1982 May 2
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/623
Argentina (Falklands) (Part 12)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2012 Dec 28
Classification: Secret
Page count: 231
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82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: Foreign Secretary PS letter to No.10 ("Falklands: Rio Treaty meeting") [suggested reply to President of Organisation of American States; MT approved] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: Foreign Secretary PS letter to No.10 ("Mrs Gandhi: Falklands") [suggests MT write seeking stronger support; MT demurs, preferring to wait] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: UKE Tokyo telegram 213 to FCO (1300Z) (Japanese response to US tilt) [no further economic sanctions] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: UKE Madrid telegram 234 to FCO (1430Z) (Spanish Government statement following British bombing of Port Stanley Airport) ["constitutes a serious escalation in the conflict"; "fundamental colonial problem"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: South Atlantic Presentation Unit briefing (1630Z) (SAPU(82)12 - issued at 1730) [raid on Port Stanley Airport; Pym visit to Washington and New York; role of UN; Costa Mendez] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1557 to FCO (1655Z) ("Falklands: US Press") [US tilt towards Britain "the one big story"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: UKMIS New York telegram 626 to FCO (1733Z) ("Falklands: Security Council") [UK response to President of Security Council's urgent request for information] [declassified 2012]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: Argentine Ambassador to the UN letter to President of the UNSCR (British air attacks) [repulsed by Argentine forces in self-defence under Article 51]
82 May 1 Sa Major Falklands: Galteiri speech (British air attacks)
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: FCO Sitrep (0630Z) (0730, 2 May) [Vulcan & naval attacks on Port Stanley airport; Galtieri speech] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Lt Cdr Alfredo Astiz") [Swedish request to interview him in connection with murder of a Swedish national in 1977; FCO lawyers advise only possible if he consents] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Minor Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Secretary of State's return") [will he need to be met at airport? possible Commons statements] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Minor Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute ("Possible meeting of North Atlantic Council on 3 May") [British Ambassador to NATO contemplating calling NAC to brief colleagues] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute of 40th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0915Z) ("Defence matters") [Gurkhas; Astiz; UK cooperation with Chile; Argentinian submarine Santa Fé; Venezuela; action in NATO; Chiefs of Staff meeting] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: FCO Emergency Unit minute of 40th Meeting/82 of Chiefs of Staff Committee (0915Z) ("Military options for repossession of the Falkland Islands") [comments on paper taken at Chiefs of Staff committee that morning] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Key Falklands: No.10 record of conversation (1145Z) (MT-Whitelaw-Nott-Parkinson-Havers-Lewin-Fieldhouse-Acland) [Rules of Engagement widened to permit attack on General Belgrano] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1566 to FCO (2215Z) ("Falklands: Secretary of State's Visit to Washington") [account of Pym's meeting with Haig; Reagan says UK Forces are "doing the work of the free world"; Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1568 to FCO (2230Z) ("Falklands: Press Conference by Secretary of State in Washington") [saw Haig last week as a mediator, "today I have come back to consult him as an ally"] [declassified 2012]
82 May 2 Su Major Falklands: UKE Washington telegram 1569 to FCO (2300Z) ("Falklands: Your Talk with Haig") [clarification of Peruvian peace proposals] [declassified 2012]