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Catalogue description Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Middle East Department and successors: Registered Files (MID Series)
| Reference: | OD 34 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Overseas Development and successors: Middle East Department and successors: Registered Files (MID Series) |
| Description: |
Records in the MID series relate to the work of the various departments of the overseas development ministry and administration responsible for the provision of aid and development in the Mediterranean and the near and middle-east. This was aid in the form either of direct loans and technical assistance, or aid administered through multi-lateral organisations, principally the United Nations and the Central Treaty Organisation (CENTO). The series includes some files relating to development in the Pacific region from 1971-1972. Selected files in this series relate to major development and aid projects in the Mediterranean (Cyprus, Gibraltar, Malta and Yugoslavia), the Near East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Turkey), Arabia (Bahrain, Muscat and Oman, Saudi Arabia, the Trucial States and the Yemen and Aden), the Middle East (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Pakistan), as well as files relating to central policy on the work of the Middle East Development Division. There are also a few files on development projects in the Far East and Pacific (Fiji, Hong Kong, Tonga and Western Samoa). |
| Date: | 1964-1986 |
| Related material: |
Records of the British Middle East Office and the Middle East Development Division are in FO 957 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | MID file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Ministry of Overseas Development, Middle East Department, 1964-1970 Overseas Development Administration, Middle East and Mediterranean and Caribbean Department, 1972-1973 Overseas Development Administration, Middle East and Mediterranean Department, 1970-1972 Overseas Development Administration, Middle East, Mediterranean and Pacific Department, 1971-1972 |
| Physical description: | 535 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1992 Overseas Development Administration |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
Development work in the Near and Middle East, the Mediterranean and Arabia was handled by a number of departments in the Ministry for Overseas Development and the Overseas Development Administration which used the MID file series. The Middle East Department (1967-1970) was followed by the Middle East and Mediterranean Department (1970-1971), the Middle East, Mediterranean and Pacific Department (1971-1972), the the Middle East, Mediterranean and Caribbean Department (1972-1974) and the Middle East and Mediterranean Department (1974 on). |
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