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Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South East Asian Department: Registered Papers and Digital Files (D and FA Series)
| Reference: | FCO 15 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South East Asian Department: Registered Papers and Digital Files (D and FA Series) |
| Description: |
This series contains records of the South East Asia Department of the Foreign Office to October 1968 dealing with UK relations with Burma, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) and the International Control Commissions in Indo-China, as well as Foreign Office correspondence on matters relating to Commonwealth states in the area from January 1967. From October 1968, the records are those of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office South East Asian Department, covering the same states and organisations with the exception of Indonesia, for which responsibility passed to the South West Pacific Department. |
| Date: | 1967-1994 |
| Arrangement: |
Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles. References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records. |
| Related material: |
For Asia Economic Department files see FCO 11 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | D and FA file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968- Foreign Office, South East Asian Department, 1947-1968 |
| Physical description: | 8331 paper files and digital records |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The South East Asian Department of the Foreign Office continued with largely unaltered functions under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, except that responsibility for relations with Indonesia passed to the South West Pacific Department. |
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