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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (AME Series)
| Reference: | DO 210 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Atlantic Department: Registered Files (AME Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains policy records produced by the Atlantic Department dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Canada and the Americas generally. |
| Date: | 1964-1966 |
| Arrangement: |
Former file reference |
| Related material: |
For later records see FCO 23 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | AME file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Atlantic Department, 1967-1968 Commonwealth Relations Office, Atlantic Department, 1964-1966 |
| Physical description: | 51 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accumulation dates: | 1964-1966 |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Atlantic Department was created in 1964 to handle UK and Commonwealth political relations with Canada, the Commonwealth Caribbean islands, and non-Commonwealth mainland America, taking over work previously carried out by the Western and United Nations Department. Responsibility for relations with Ireland were added in 1967. Economic relations were the responsibility of other specialised economic relations departments. The Atlantic Department continued in this role in the Commonwealth Office, and was finally wound up upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, with responsibility passing to the Latin American Department and the North American Department. |
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