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Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver

Catalogue reference: FCO 166

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FCO 166

The series contains the documents generated by Lord Carver’s Secretariat. The files contain the record from: Secretariats meetings (1977-78);organisation, composition and personnel of the Rhodesian civil service; planning and monitoring of...

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Reference
FCO 166
Title
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Papers of the Secretariat to Lord Carver
Date
1977-1982
Description

The series contains the documents generated by Lord Carver’s Secretariat. The files contain the record from:

  • Secretariats meetings (1977-78);
  • organisation, composition and personnel of the Rhodesian civil service;
  • planning and monitoring of the ceasefire agreement;
  • proceedings of the ceasefire commission;
  • report of the British Military Advisory and Training Team in Zimbabwe (1980-1982);
  • Organisation of the Governor's Office and BHC Salisbury;
  • Governor's diary 1980;
  • Commission appointing Lord Soames to become Governor of Southern Rhodesia 1979;
  • Press arrangements for Constitutional Conference in London 1979;
  • ZAPU (Zimbabwe African People’s Union) Central Committee members 1979;
  • declarations of political leaders at election council;
  • Final reports from all provincial supervisors.

Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Creator(s)
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
Physical description
file(s)
Access conditions
Records not yet transferred
Immediate source of acquisition

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Subjects
Topics
International
Litigation
Democracy
Diaries
Africa
Accruals
No accruals are expected after initial transfer.
Selection and destruction information
Selected under Records Collection Policy.
Administrative / biographical background

In August 1977 Lord Carver was appointed resident commissioner designate for Rhodesia with responsibility for ending the dispute over independence there. He resigned after fourteen months of deadlock. This collection was created by Lt Col W E Rous, one of Lord Carver?s Secretariat staff.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16555603/

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