Catalogue description Commonwealth Office: International and General Department: Registered Files (UG Series)

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Details of FCO 60
Reference: FCO 60
Title: Commonwealth Office: International and General Department: Registered Files (UG Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files produced by the International and General Department of the Commonwealth Office in the period January 1967 to October 1968. Subjects covered include matters relating to dependent territories.
Date: 1967-1968
Arrangement:

By former file reference
Related material:

For earlier files of the predecessor Colonial Office International Relations and General Department see CO 936

For later files relating to international labour questions see FCO 71
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: UG file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Commonwealth Office, International and General Department, 1966-1968
Physical description: 54 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accruals: No future accruals are expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

The International and General Department of the Dependent Territories Division of the Commonwealth Office dealt with relations between the Commonwealth and the United Nations, matters relating to international labour conventions, the treatment of offenders and general matters affecting all dependent territories. Following the merger of the Commonwealth Office and the Foreign Office on 17 October 1968, the department was abolished, and its functions were distributed among various Foreign and Commonwealth Office departments, principally the United Nations (Political) Department.

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