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1981 Sep 22 - 1985 Oct 23
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1672
Afghanistan (Soviet invasion) (Part 6)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2018 Jul 24
Classification: Top Secret
Page count: 323
Any docs withheld? 11

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Showing items 21 - 40 of 68

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Date Value Title
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Afghanistan: UKMIS New York telegram 1965 to FCO (0115Z) ("Afghanistan: UNGA 37 Debate") [result of vote] [released Jul 2018]
82 Dec 17 Fr Major Afghanistan: UKE Moscow telegram 853 to FCO (0756Z) ("Afghanistan") [Pravda editorial - "first authoritative Soviet statement on Afghanistan since Andropov's advent"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Afghanistan: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") ["a short survey of what we are doing to help the Afghans and to prevent Afghanistan from being forgotten"] [released Jul 2018]
82 Dec 27 Mo Major Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 191 to FCO (1015Z) ("Afghanistan: SitRep") [released Jul 2018]
82 Dec 29 We Major Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 194 to FCO (1100Z) ("Afghanistan: Anniversary of Soviet Invasion") [situation report] [released Jul 2018]
83 Jan 19 We Major Afghanistan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call by a Group of Afghans") [witnesses to Soviet atrocities] [released Jul 2018]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Visit by Witness of Soviet Atrocities in Afghnistan") [further measures to publicise the massacre] [released Jul 2018]
83 Jan 28 Fr Major Afghanistan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Winston Churchill MP, Afghan delegation) [witnesses to Soviet massacre in Logar province] [released Jul 2018]
83 Feb 4 Fr Minor Afghanistan: MT letter to Winston Churchill MP (Soviet atrocities towards Afghan civilians) ["Our delegation to the [UN]... has been briefed to draw special attention to the [Logar province] massacre along with other violations of human rights in Afghanistan"] [released Jul 2018]
83 Feb 4 Fr Major Afghanistan: UKMIS Geneva telegram 27 to FCO (1710Z) ("Commission on Human Rights: Afghanistan") [statement by Lord Colville on the massacre in Logar Province] [released Jul 2018]
83 Feb 21 Mo Minor Afghanistan: MT letter to Julian Ridsdale MP (support and publicity for Afghanistan) ["I entirely agree with you about the need to support Pakistan on the Afghanistan issue"] [released Jul 2018]
83 Mar 15 Tu Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 (meetings with members of Peshawar resistance groups) [MT advised against meeting Mohammed Yahya, brother of an Afghan resistance leader, during his visit to UK] [released Jul 2018]
83 Mar 18 Fr Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [further ODA contribution to relief work for Afghan refugees in Pakistan] [released Jul 2018]
83 Jul 22 Fr Major Afghanistan: No.10 minute to Howe PS ("Afghanistan Support Committee") [message of support for fundraising appeal event] [released Jul 2018]
83 Sep 15 Th Major Afghanistan: UKE Kabul telegram 146 to FCO (1830Z) ("Afghanistan: Expulsion of US Diplomats") [situation report] [released Jul 2018]
83 Nov 8 Tu Major Afghanistan: Anthony Parsons minute to John Coles ("Soviet Prisoners in Afghanistan") [proposal to grant UK asylum to some of the prisoners: potential snags] [released Jul 2018]
83 Nov 17 Th Major Afghanistan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Afghanistan") [draft No.10 reply to People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan request for meeting with MT] [released Jul 2018]
83 Nov 21 Mo Major Afghanistan: John Coles minute to Anthony Parsons ("Soviet Prisoners in Afghanistan") [calls for UK govt to intervene: draft No.10 reply to Committee: MT deems draft "much too negative"] [released Jul 2018]
83 Nov 23 We Major Afghanistan: UKMIS New York telegram 1435 to FCO (0138Z) ("UNGA Debate on Afghanistan: Conclusion") [results & analysis] [released Jul 2018]
83 Nov 25 Fr Major Afghanistan: FCO telegram 447 to UKE Islamabad (1253Z) ("Soviet Defectors from Afghanistan: Daily Mail") ["a vivid account of conditions facing Soviet troops... low morale, corruption, war weariness, and disease"] [released Jul 2018]