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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Cambodia, later Khmer...
Catalogue reference: FO 1119
What's it about?
FO 1119
This series contains registered files of the British embassy in Cambodia (from 1970, the Khmer Republic).
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 1119
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Cambodia, later Khmer Republic: Registered Files
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1971
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains registered files of the British embassy in Cambodia (from 1970, the Khmer Republic).
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English and French
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Cambodia, 1968-1970
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Embassy, Khmer Republic, 1970-1975
- Foreign Office, Embassy, Cambodia, 1953-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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7 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2001 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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
- International
- Asia
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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File series began in 1953
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Occasional further accruals can be expected.
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
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Selected under acquisition policy criterion 2.2.1.3, showing the development of UK/Cambodian diplomatic relations.
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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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Cambodia was granted independence as an associated state within the French Union in 1949, and gained full independence in 1953. Following independence, a British embassy was established in Phnom Penh. Cambodia became the Khmer Republic in 1970 after the overthrow of the head of state, Prince Sihanouk. It was renamed the People's Republic of Kampuchea in 1978 after an invasion by Vietnamese forces overthrew the Khmer Rouge regime. On the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops the country reverted to the name on Cambodia in 1989.
British embassy staff were withdrawn from the Khmer Republic in 1975 when Khmer Rouge forces captured Phnom Penh. When government and resistance forces signed peace agreements and formed a Supreme National Council in October 1991, Britain appointed a representative to the Council. The representative's mission was upgraded to a full embassy in September 1993.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15769/
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Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Embassy, Cambodia, later Khmer Republic: Registered Files
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