Trilateral talks between Oman, the UK and USA

This file concerns proposed Oman-US-UK trilateral talks. It contains minutes, briefing notes, scheduling arrangements, draft agendas and correspondence on:

• Plans to hold the trilateral talks in Muscat on 27-28 February 1982
• The postponement of the talks and Oman’s suggestion that they be held later in London
• An assessment of the postponement of the proposed Muscat talks and of internal Omani politics and personalities, by Air Vice Marshall E Bennett
• Visits to the US by the Chief of Defence Staff Major General T M Creasey and Brigadier Timothy Landon
• A visit to the Middle East by the US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger; Mr Weinberger’s exposition of US policy in the Middle East to E F Henderson, including of US demands concerning a Saudi airborne radar system deal and of Israeli efforts to disrupt the development of US-Saudi relations
• The potential for and background to trilateral exercises
• Air defence capabilities in Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain and the potential for an integrated Gulf Cooperation Council system
• The Camp David peace process and Israel's withdrawal from Sinai
• Pakistan's nuclear programme, and its relations with the US, the UK and the European Economic Community
• Soviet Union strategy in Afghanistan and the Middle East
• A copy of the Annual Review for Yemen in 1981
• The Iran-Iraq War and possible Jordanian support for Saddam Hussein.