Catalogue description Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED Series)
Reference: | DO 220 |
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Title: | Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED Series) |
Description: |
This series contains records of the Mediterranean Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus and Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar. |
Date: | 1963-1966 |
Arrangement: |
By former file reference. |
Related material: |
For later records of the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department see FCO 27 For later records of the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department see FCO 42 |
Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
Former reference in its original department: | 2-MED file series |
Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
Language: | English |
Creator: |
Commonwealth Relations Office, Mediterranean Department, 1965-1966 |
Physical description: | 218 file(s) |
Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
Immediate source of acquisition: |
from 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Administrative / biographical background: |
The Mediterranean Department was created in 1965 to handle UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus, previously handled by the Constitutional Department. Responsibility for relations with Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar, were added when the Malta Department was abolished later in 1965 and its functions absorbed by the Mediterranean Department though the existing separate file series for Malta records remained in use. The Mediterranean Department itself was abolished upon the formation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966, with responsibility for Cyprus and Malta passing to the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department, and its functions relating to Gibraltar passing to the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department. |
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