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Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Department: Registered files (ES Series)
Catalogue reference: FCO 176
What's it about?
FCO 176
This series contains annual policy files created by the Eastern Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently by the Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Department
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 176
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Department: Registered files (ES Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1992-1995
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains annual policy files created by the Eastern Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and subsequently by the Russia, South Caucasus and Central Asia Department
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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These records complement earlier material held in FCO 28 FCO 28
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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)
- ES file series
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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)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1332 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 2021 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
- Europe and Russia
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Selection and destruction information (Information about how the record was selected for archiving)
- This material is subject to selection in line with Operational Selection Policy 31 ("Britain's Diplomatic Relations 1973-1996")
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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 department covered the UK political and economic relations with former Soviet Union countries including Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
The department had responsibility for the Baltic States until 1995 when responsibility was passed to the Central Europe Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C16925296/
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