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Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Economic Department and Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department: Registered Files, East Africa Economic (EAE Series)
| Reference: | DO 214 |
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| Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: East Africa Economic Department and Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department: Registered Files, East Africa Economic (EAE Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains records produced by the East Africa Economic Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office, and records in the same series produced by the successor department dealing with UK and Commonwealth economic relations with East Africa. |
| Date: | 1964-1966 |
| Arrangement: |
Arrangement is by former file reference except for a number of parliamentary question files which appear at the end of the series. |
| Related material: |
For later Commonwealth Office records concerning economic matters in East Africa see FCO 31 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | EAE file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Commonwealth Office, Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department, 1966-1966 Commonwealth Relations Office, Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department, 1965-1966 Commonwealth Relations Office, East Africa Economic Department, 1964-1965 |
| Physical description: | 141 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accumulation dates: | 1964-1966 |
| Accruals: | No future accruals expected |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The East Africa Economic Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office was responsible for UK and Commonwealth economic, trade and development aid relations with Tanganyika and Zanzibar (later Tanzania), Kenya and Uganda, the East African Common Services Organisation, and matters relating to Commonwealth coffee interests. The Department was absorbed into a new Development Policy and East and West Africa Economic Department in September 1965. Its functions continuing essentially unaltered in the new Department, which continued in the Commonwealth Office after August 1966. |
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