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Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Chad: Registered Files
| Reference: | FCO 88 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Chad: Registered Files |
| Description: |
This series contains records of the UK Embassy to Chad. |
| Date: | 1971-1974 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Chad, 1968- |
| Physical description: | 11 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2002 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Custodial history: | Until a UK embassy was opened in Chad, embassy business was carried out from London, and the records were held by the West Africa Department registry in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. |
| Accumulation dates: | Series began in 1968 |
| Selection and destruction information: | Records selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing developments in UK relations with Chad not reflected in Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters files. |
| Accruals: | Occasional further accruals can be expected. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Republic of Chad became independent in 1960, but the British community in Chad was too small, and British diplomatic and commercial dealings too infrequent, for the establishment of a British embassy at Fort Lamy (later Ndjamena), the capital of Chad, to be justified. The British ambassaor to Chad was resident in London until 1991, from which time the ambassador to Cameroon or the high commissioner in Nigeria were designated as the non-resident ambassador to Chad. |
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