Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Rhodesia Economic Department:...

This series contains records of the Rhodesia Economic Department dealing with the effect of economic sanctions against the illegal government in Rhodesia, and other economic questions relating to the UK and Rhodesia.

By original file reference within annual file cycles

For earlier Commonwealth Office Rhodesia Economic Department files see DO 207

For further files on Rhodesia see FCO 25

For Rhodesia/Rhodesia Political Dept files see FCO 36

• Commonwealth Office, Rhodesia Economic Department, 1967-1968
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Rhodesia Economic Department, 1968-1972

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Africa

Following the illegal Unilateral Declaration of Independence by Rhodesia in 1965, sanctions were imposed by the international community, and the Rhodesia Economic Department took a close interest in the impact of these sanctions, and the general economic condition of Rhodesia. It was also interested in monitoring the application of the sanctions. The Department had been established after UDI in the Commonwealth Office, with a sister Rhodesia Political Department, and this arrangement continued under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until the two departments were merged as the Rhodesia Department in 1972.