Catalogue description Overseas Development Administration: United Nations Department B: Registered Files (INT Series)

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Details of OD 57
Reference: OD 57
Title: Overseas Development Administration: United Nations Department B: Registered Files (INT Series)
Description:

The records in this series of United Nations Department B's registered files deal with general development questions regarding United Kingdom relations with the United Nations, particularly the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Council, and the various international development banks and funds.
Date: 1982-1987
Arrangement:

Arranged by original file series reference within three-year file cycle
Related material:

See also OD 108
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: INT file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Overseas Development Administration, United Nations Department B, 1979-1984
Physical description: 84 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1999 Department for International Development
Accumulation dates: 1977-1984
Selection and destruction information: OD 57/1-25 were selected for permanent preservation following an accelerated review process under the Open Government Initiative in the Overseas Development Administration which identified certain subjects whose records could be released early, including these files on the replenishment of the International Fund for Agricultural Development and development funding through the African Development Bank and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). Other files in the series will be subjected to selection review when they are due regular second review from c. 2003.
Administrative / biographical background:

The United Nations Department B was established after the predecessor United Nations Department was split in two in 1974. It continued dealing with general development banking, food and social questions at the United Nations until 1984, when it was merged with United Nations Department A to form the United Nations and Commonwealth Department.

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