Visits by UK officials to the Persian Gulf

This file concerns visits by officials and ministers from the UK to the Middle East. It contains correspondence concerning, briefing notes for, records of meetings from and reports on the visits and proposed visits of:

• Captain Neville Browne to Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, the Yemen Arab Republic (YAR), Oman, Bahrain, Egypt and Libya
• M L Connor to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar
• K J Passmore to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE
• J C Moberly to the YAR, the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY) and Qatar, accompanied by Malcolm McKernan and June McKernan to the PDRY
• H D A C Miers to Oman, the YAR and the PDRY, accompanying Moberly on his visits to the YAR and the PDRY; and a subsequent visit to Abu Dhabi
• James Blythe to Oman, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait
• N J Guckian to Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Oman and Iran
• Sir J Leahy to Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and Bahrain, postponed due to developments in the Iran-Iraq War
• Chief Clerk of the FCO Derek Day to the Middle East for a ‘pastoral visit’
• Energy Secretary Nigel Lawson to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the UAE
• Minister of State Douglas Hurd to the UAE and possibly Saudi Arabia
• A G Munro to the UAE
• P B Edgley to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.

The file also concerns the question of organising a greater number of familiarisation tours to the Gulf in view of a temporary loosening of budgetary constraints in the FCO.