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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Adriatic Department: Registered Files (EK...
Catalogue reference: FCO 182
What's it about?
FCO 182
The series contains annual policy files created by the Eastern Adriatic Department covering the UK political and economic relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro (Former Federal Republic of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FCO 182
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Eastern Adriatic Department: Registered Files (EK Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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The series contains annual policy files created by the Eastern Adriatic Department covering the UK political and economic relations with Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro (Former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia). The files also cover the UK response to the political situation in the region following the break-up, including United Nations membership and division of assets between the successor states of former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The files are arranged by country/region and further by subject according to the FCO corporate file plan.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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This series complements earlier material held in FCO 175 when responsibility for Eastern Adriatic countries sat with the Central European Department FCO 175
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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)
- EK prefix
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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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- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Eastern Adriatic Department, 1994-2003
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office, EU Eastern Adriatic Department, 2004-2004
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 240 paper files and digital records
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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 2024 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
- 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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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 Adriatic Unit was part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Eastern European Department. The Unit was established in 1992 following the Yugoslav Wars and the break-up of Yugoslavia.
In 1993 the East European Department changed its name to the Central European Department and in 1994 the Eastern Adriatic Unit become a stand alone department. From its inception, the stand alone department used the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's IT systems
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17133701/
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