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Series
Overseas Development Administration and successors: Eastern Asia Department and Eastern...
Catalogue reference: OD 120
What's it about?
OD 120
This series contains records of the Eastern Asia Department and from 1995 the Eastern Asia and Pacific Department on a wide variety of subjects including bilateral aid to the Eastern Asia and, later, the Pacific areas (Commonwealth and...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- OD 120
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Title (The name of the record)
- Overseas Development Administration and successors: Eastern Asia Department and Eastern Asia and Pacific Department: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1982-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Eastern Asia Department and from 1995 the Eastern Asia and Pacific Department on a wide variety of subjects including bilateral aid to the Eastern Asia and, later, the Pacific areas (Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries). It also contains details of aid administered through multilateral organisations such as the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- EAS, ASB, ASC, ASD, ASE, ASG, ASQ, ASS
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for International Development, Eastern Asia and Pacific Department, 1997-2003
- Overseas Development Administration, Eastern Asia and Pacific Department, 1995-1997
- Overseas Development Administration, Eastern Asia Department, 1982-1995
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 214 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2014 Department for International Development
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Asia
- Aid and development
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Eastern Asia Department was created in 1982. In 1995 the Department became the Eastern Asia and Pacific Department and continued until 2003.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14225321/
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