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1983 Jul 1 - 1984 Mar 20
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1247
Gibraltar (Policy) (Part 4)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Secret
Page count: 275
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83 Jul 21 Th Major Gibraltar: UKE Madrid record of conversation (UKA Ambassador, King of Spain) ["The King asked me to call laast night ... The situation over Gibraltar was disturbing .... it should be clearly understood in private... that in fact Spain did not really seek an early solution to the sovereignty problem... [Howe & Morán] should reach a private understanding... differentiating between their actual aim and the methods used to propitiate public opinion"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Gibraltar: UKE Madrid telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar and EC") [Morán himself and MFA briefing have played down the press flurry which unreasonably followed... [MT's] remark in the Commons... Spanish opinion has been made aware that they... must deal with the problem if they are to join the EC"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Gibraltar: Ian Stewart minute to MT ("Gibraltar") [record of conversations with Joshua Hassan regarding closure of naval dockyard/transfer of MoD land; signing of formal agreement; Hassan meeting with MT] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 25 Mo Major Gibraltar: FCO briefing for MT ("Gibraltar Dockyard") [MT meeting with Chief Minister Hassan; signature of formal agreement on dockyard & presentation to Parliament/House of Assembly] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 25 Mo Major Gibraltar: Heseltine minute to MT ("Gibraltar Dockyard") ["very satisfactory outcome to negotiations... Sir Joshua ratifies the final document next week... would be appropriate to announce the agreement to Parliament... credit should be given to... [Ian Stewart] who achieved the settlement"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 26 Tu Major Gibraltar: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Joshua Hassan, Ian Stewart, Adolfo Canepa) [future of naval dockyard; Spanish entry to EC/border restrictions] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Jul 27 We Major Gibraltar: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("EC/Spain: Gibraltar") ["You asked for some background on where we stand over Gibraltar in the accession negotiations with Spain... we aim... to secure acknowledgement by Spain that the Spanish restrictions on Gibraltar are incompatible with the obligations Spain will assume on entry to the Community"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 4 Th Major Gibraltar: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar and the EC") [background & request for reply from No.10 to memo from European Movement regarding implications of Spanish accession to EC; "The European Movement is broadly representative of influential and informed opinions in Gibraltar"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 6 Sa Major Gibraltar: Office of the Governor of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar dockyard ballot") ["no official announcement... of the result... The situation... remains unclear"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 16 Tu Major Gibraltar: Chief Minister Hassan message to MT (closure of naval dockyard) ["an earlier decision of the unions to fight [closure]... has been reversed"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Aug 31 We Major Gibraltar: MT message to Chief Minister Hassan (closure of naval dockyard) ["the decision of the unions not to resist closure... is particularly heartening"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 1 Th Major Gibraltar: Howe minute to MT ("Gibraltar") [meetings with Spanish Foreign Minister, Prime Minister & King: outline of main aims & lines to be taken; public presentation] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 6 Tu Major Gibraltar: UKE Madrid record of conversation (Howe, Morán) [equality of rights for Spaniards in Gibraltar; airport; conditions for lifting of restrictions; preparatory talks between officials in advance of next Howe/Morán meeting at UN General Assembly; UN resolution] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 7 We Major Gibraltar: UKE Madrid record of conversation (Howe, King Carlos I) [dismantling restrictions; economic development; naval visits; Ceuta & Melilla; Spanish accession to EC; NATO] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 7 We Major Gibraltar: UKE Madrid record of conversation (Howe, González) [Spanish accession to EC; NATO; Gibraltar: development of tourism/economic links & easing of border restrictions; MT visit to Spain] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 7 We Major Gibraltar: Havers minute to Howe ("Commercialisation of Gibraltar Dockyard") [legality of UK state aid provision] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Sep 19 Mo Major Gibraltar: Howe minute to MT ("Gibraltar") [visit to Madrid 6/7 Sep: record of conversations with Morán, King Carlos I & González; lifting of Spanish restrictions on Gibraltar; Spanish accession to EC; Spanish referendum on NATO membership; objectives for forthcoming meeting with Morán at UN General Assembly] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Oct 20 Th Major Gibraltar: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Gibraltar") ["giving certain EC rights to Spain in advance of accession... in return for the Spaniards lifting all their remaining restrictions on Gibraltar"; MT unconvinced by proposal] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 15 Tu Major Gibraltar: Howe minute to Lord Hailsham ("Commercialisation of the Gibraltar Dockyard") [risk of European Court legal action being incurred by provision of state aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Nov 18 Fr Major Gibraltar: Governor's Office of Gibraltar telegram to FCO ("Gibraltar") [closure of naval dockyard: request for authorisation to commence rundown in face of probable trade union-organised resistance] [declassified Jan 2014]