Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Department: Registered files (ES Series)
Reference: | FCO 176 |
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Title: | Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Department: Registered files (ES Series) |
Description: |
This series contains annual policy files created by the Eastern Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently by the Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Department |
Date: | 1992-1994 |
Related material: |
These records complement earlier material held in FCO 28 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | ES file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968- |
Physical description: | 968 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2021 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Selection and destruction information: | This material is subject to selection in line with Operational Selection Policy 31 ("Britain's Diplomatic Relations 1973-1996") |
Accruals: | Series is accruing |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The department covered the UK political and economic relations with former Soviet Union countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia. The department had responsibility for the Baltic States until 1995 when responsibility was passed to the Central Europe Department. |
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