Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Cambodia, later Khmer Republic: Registered Files

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Reference: FO 1119
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Cambodia, later Khmer Republic: Registered Files
Description:

This series contains registered files of the British embassy in Cambodia (from 1970, the Khmer Republic).
Date: 1966-1971
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English and French
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Cambodia, 1968-1970

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Khmer Republic, 1970-1975

Foreign Office, Embassy, Cambodia, 1953-1968
Physical description: 7 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Accumulation dates: File series began in 1953
Selection and destruction information: Selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing the development of UK/Cambodian diplomatic relations.
Accruals: Occasional further accruals can be expected.
Administrative / biographical background:

Cambodia was granted independence as an associated state within the French Union in 1949, and gained full independence in 1953. Following independence, a British embassy was established in Phnom Penh. Cambodia became the Khmer Republic in 1970 after the overthrow of the head of state, Prince Sihanouk. It was renamed the People's Republic of Kampuchea in 1978 after an invasion by Vietnamese forces overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. On the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops the country reverted to the name on Cambodia in 1989.

British embassy staff were withdrawn from the Khmer Republic in 1975 when Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh. When government and resistance forces signed peace agreements and formed a Supreme National Council in October 1991, Britain appointed a representative to the Council. The representative's mission was upgraded to a full embassy in September 1993.

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