Contacts with the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO)

This file relates to informal contacts between British officials, notably J C Moberly and W R Tomkys, and Khalid Al Hasan of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Topics of discussion include the PLO's aims, its relationship with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA), the Arab-Israeli conflict, HMG policy, and the position of Nabil Ramlawi in London. This file also contains correspondence concerning:

• A meeting at a social occasion between R L Balfour and Deputy Director of the PLO office in Kuwait Awni Battash
• An interview with Lord Carrington [Peter Alexander Rupert Carington] published by the International Herald Tribune