Visit by Richard Luce, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar, December 1983

This file contains arrangements, programmes, briefs and records of the visit of the Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Richard Luce to Bahrain and Kuwait in December 1983. It covers:

• Briefs on the state of affairs in Kuwait and Bahrain
• The Iran-Iraq War and possible settlement
• The Arab-Israeli conflict
• The activities of the British Council in Bahrain
• The curtailment of Luce's visit following the launch of US air strikes in Lebanon, leading to the exclusion of Qatar from his itinerary
• Luce’s meetings with the Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, focussing on events in Lebanon and the Iran-Iraq War
• Luce’s meeting with the leading figures in Bahrain including the Ruler Amir Isa Bin Salman Al Khalifa
• A report on the visit of the West German [Germany] Minister of State Jurgen Mollemann to the UAE and Qatar
• Potential civil and defence contracts in Kuwait.