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1980 Mar 17 - 1984 Dec 17
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1342
Portugal (Visits to UK by Prime Minister Dr Sa Carneiro (May 1980), Vice Prime Minister Professor Freitas do Amaral (November 1982) and Prime Minister Dr Mario Soares (November 1984); meetings with Prime Minister)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 226
Any docs withheld? 3

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80 Mar 17 Mo Major Portugal: Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Portugese Prime Minister and Foreign Minister" ) [outline of proposed programme; dates] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 May 16 Fr Major Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Portugese Prime Minister: 19 May 1980" ) [Portugese objectives/UK objectives; accession to EC; international affairs; bilateral relations; pre-accession aid] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 May 19 Mo Major Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Freitas Do Amaral, Almeida Mendes, Julian Bullard, Lord Moran, David Hannay) [Sá Carneiro car accident; accession to EC; pre-accession aid; textiles; free movement of labour; USSR/Afghanistan; NATO/use of military facilities] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 May 19 Mo Major Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Carrington, Freitas Do Amaral, Peter Walker, Cecil Parkinson, Almeida Mendes, Freitas-Cruz) [Sá Carneiro car accident; internal political situation; Morocco; Arab/Israeli dispute] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 May 21 We Major Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 141 to FCO (1200Z) ("Visit of Portugese leaders") [leaders' thoughts on their visit; Sá Carneiro car accident; EC; date of next meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 2 Mo Major Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 134 to FCO (1610Z) ("Portugal: the Prime Minister's Health") [report on condition, following car accident during visit to UK] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 3 Tu Major Portugal: Prime Minister Sá Carneiro letter to MT (next meeting) [car accident; accession to EC; date of next meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jun 16 Mo Major Portugal: MT letter to Prime Minister Sá Carneiro (next meeting) [car accident; accession to EC; date for next meeting] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 15 Tu Major Portugal: Prime Minister Sá Carneiro letter to MT (EC pre-accession aid for Portugal) ["I am sure you fully understand the meaning and implications of this issue... I entirely count on your solidarity"] [declassified Jan 2014]
80 Jul 25 Fr Major Portugal: MT letter to Prime Minister Sá Carneiro (EC pre-accession aid for Portugal) ["We shall of course do our best to help: but I hope you will bear our own very real difficulties in mind"] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Sep 21 Tu Major Portugal: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by the Portugese Deputy Prime Minister") [request for meeting with MT; FCO advice] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Oct 29 Fr Major Portugal: Pym minute to Nott ("Frigates for Portugal") [Portugese request for UK govt to subsidise the provision of Lynx helicopters] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major Portugal: UKE Lisbon telegram 194 to FCO (1055Z) ("Visit of Portugese Vice Prime Minister") [East Timor; financial assistance from UK for frigate programme; Portugese/Spanish EC accession negotiations; compensation for UK farmers] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major Portugal: Nott minute to Pym (military aid to Portugal) [Nott opposed to aid, notwithstanding Portugese support during Falklands campaign] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major Portugal: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Portugese Vice Prime Minister") [UK objectives; Portugese objectives; internal politics; agenda; compensation for UK farmers; bilateral relations; internatonal affairs; Defence relations; accession to EC] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 9 Tu Major Portugal: Department of Defence briefing for MT ("Visit by the Portugese Vice Prime Minister") [military aid; Falklands; EC; East Timor; compensation for UK farmers] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 10 We Major Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Freitas do Amaral) [political situation in Portugal; Spain; accession to EC; East Timor; frigates; Falklands; Portugese delegation to study Cabinet Office procedures] [declassified Jan 2014]
82 Nov 10 We Major Portugal: Department of Defence record of conversation (Nott, Freitas do Amaral, Pardal) [Spain; Portugese constitution/armed forces; Falklands; military sales to Portugal] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 10 Th Major Portugal: Ian Gow minute to John Coles ("Portugese C.D.S. Party") [request for newly-elected leader Pires to be photographed with MT at No.10] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Apr 17 Tu Major Portugal: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Soares, Hugh Byatt, Crispin Tickell, Mota Pinto, Jaime Gama, Antonio Marta) [UK investment/trade; accession to EC; EC budget; fisheries; NATO/Third World relations with West] [declassified Jan 2014]