This series contains the records of the departments of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office, and their successors, which dealt with questions relating to international communications.
Subjects covered include civil aviation (airlines and airports, air service agreements, traffic rights and routes, air space, over-flying rights and air travel control, national travel restrictions, international jurisdiction matters in the field of transport and communications matters, national legislation and tourism); posts and telecommunications (work and membership of the Universal Postal Union, provision of postal services in the dependent territories, stamp issues, telegraphy, radio communications, the work of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board, Council, Bureau and Organisation and the International Telecommunications Union (telecommunications satellites and the use of outer space, undersea cables); meteorology (including the work of the World Meteorological Organisation); international rivers (especially the Danube Commission and the Central Rhine Commission); marine transport (the Law of the Sea, coastal navigation conventions, flags of convenience and flag discrimination, ports and sea canals, hazardous cargoes, losses at sea, maintenance of lights, sea pollution, especially oil pollution, marine safety issues); international waters (fishing grounds and rights, and continental shelf delimitations, mineral extraction); international road transport; and the Channel Tunnel
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