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1985 Apr 5 - 1985 Jul 27
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1498
Foreign Policy (Prime Minister's visit to South-East Asia, April 1985) (Part 2)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 367
Any docs withheld? 14

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85 Apr 12 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Neil Kinnock letter to MT (Amnesty International reports of Indonesian Government human rights abuses) [asks if MT raised issue with Suharto during her visit] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Foreign Policy: MODUK telegram to UKHC Colombo (1015Z) ("Defence Sales to India") [supplementary briefing on Marconi for MT meeting with Rajiv Gandhi during her tour of South East Asia] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi telegram 013 to UKHC Colombo (1230Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit to India") [Tamil terrorists; Punjab; Sikh extremists in UK] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 12 Fr Major Foreign Policy: FCO telegram 414 to UKHC New Delhi (1830Z) ("Arab/Israel: Murphy's Mission") [briefing for MT tour of South East Asia & Middle East] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 13 Sa Major Foreign Policy: UKE Riyadh telegram 001 to UKHC New Delhi (1215Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit") [arrangements] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 13 Sa Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi (Westlands WG30 helicopter contract) ["Westlands are puzzled as well as greatly concerned by some of the points which you raised"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 13 Sa Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Jayewardene) [conversation on "several different occasions during her visit": Tamils; UK aid for Samanala Wewa; Cable & Wireless/Sri Lanka telecommunications] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 13 Sa Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversations (MT, Tiruchelvam, Antony Acland) [MT meets with the only elected member of the Tamil United Liberation Front] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 14 Su Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Fahd) ["Tornado for Saudi Arabia"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 14 Su Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office record of conversation (MT, Rajiv Gandhi) [Westlands helicopter contract] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 14 Su Major Foreign Policy: UKHC New Delhi record of conversation (0635Z) (MT, Rajiv Gandhi) ["Prime Minister's Meeting with Gandhi"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 14 Su Major Foreign Policy: No.10 record of conversation (MT, King Fahd, Antony Acland, Crown Prince Abdullah & others) [Arab/Israel; Iran/Iraq; Lebanon; Afghanistan] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Howe PS ("Prime Minister's Visit to South-East Asia, Sri Lanka, India and Saudi Arabia") [follow-up actions] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Foreign Policy: UKE Jeddah telegram 214 to FCO (1025Z) ("Prime Minister's Visit: Saudi Press Coverage") ["Most newspapers spoke in very warm terms of the UK and of the Prime Minister personally"] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 15 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell letter to Michael Palliser (Prime Minister's Visit to Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei) [Samuel Montagu business activities] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major Foreign Policy: FCO minute to No.10 ("Visit of the Prime Minister to Malaysia: 5 - 8 April 1985") [summary by South East Asian Department] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 16 Tu Major Foreign Policy: UKE Jakarta telegram 191 to FCO (0642Z) (Prime Minister's Visit to Indonesia) [summary & assessment of success] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major Foreign Policy: President of the Ex-Services Association of Singapore letter to No.10 (Prime Minister's Visit to Singapore) [letter of thanks for MT's decision to meet with the Association] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major Foreign Policy: Charles Powell minute to MT (Prime Minister's Tour of South-East Asia) [MT's report on her visit: key points & draft statement to Parliament] [released Dec 2014]
85 Apr 17 We Major Foreign Policy: Percy Cradock minute to Charles Powell ("Indo/Pakistan Nuclear") ["The JIC has assessed that Pakistan is working towards a nuclear weapons capability"] [released Dec 2014]