Negotiator’s PM talks
This is what The News was reporting on 40 years ago as the Falklands crisis continued to unfold.
COUNTDOWN TO DECISION DAY, UN ENVOY PREDICTS RAPID MOVES
Britain’s top negotiator in the bid to solve the Falklands crisis peacefully arrived home today for talks ‘of the greatest importance’ with Mrs Thatcher.
Sir Anthony Parsons, Britain’s envoy at the United Nations in New York, said today that he would be returning to America on Monday - and that things would then start to move very rapidly.
He arrived at Heathrow airport shortly after Britain’s
Ambassador to the United States, Sir Nicholas Henderson.
The two men were having talks with senior Foreign Office officials today, and will also meet Mrs Thatcher and Foreign Secretary Mr Francis Pym, probably tomorrow.
Sir Anthony said: ‘These talks do not denote panic, but there will be a general expectation when I get back to New York on Monday that things will then move very rapidly one way or another.
‘These talks I am having are of the greatest importance.’
Sir Anthony has been involved in the negotiations being co-ordinated by the UN whose Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, added: ‘We are ploughing on, and you can never tell. The situation changes from day to day.’