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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Economic Relations Divisions I and II and successors: Registered Files (ER and WED Series)
| Reference: | DO 189 |
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| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Economic Relations Divisions I and II and successors: Registered Files (ER and WED Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains files of the Economic Relations Departments I and II and their successors from 1964, the Western Economic and Asia Economic Departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office and from 1966 of the Commonwealth Office. Subjects covered in the files include Commonwealth budgets, consortium meetings of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Colombo Plan, the Association of South East Asia, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, the British Phosphate Commission and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, and general trade and economic relations. |
| Date: | 1960-1967 |
| Related material: |
For later records of the Asia Economic Department see FCO 11 For later records of the Western Economic Department see FCO 62 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | ER and WED file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Asia Economic Department, 1966-1968 Commonwealth Office, Western Economic Department, 1966-1966 Commonwealth Relations Office, Asia Economic Department, 1964-1966 Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department I, 1955-1964 Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department II, 1955-1964 Commonwealth Relations Office, Western Economic Department, 1964-1966 |
| Physical description: | 704 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Subject to 30 year closure |
| Accumulation dates: | 1960-1967 |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
From July 1961, when the Colombo Plan Department was absorbed into the new Department of Technical Co-operation, matters relating to the Commonwealth and the Colombo plan were dealt with Economic Relations Department II, along with general development and aid and economic matters relating to the 'new' Commonwealth. Economic Relations Department I dealt with relations with the 'old' Commonwealth. |
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