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Series
Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: United Nations Department...
Catalogue reference: DO 181
What's it about?
DO 181
This series contains records of the Commonwealth Relations Office's United Nations Department and its successors dealing with all aspects of Britain's Commonwealth relations in the United Nations until May 1968, when responsibility for...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DO 181
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: United Nations Department and successors: Registered Files (UND Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1940-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Commonwealth Relations Office's United Nations Department and its successors dealing with all aspects of Britain's Commonwealth relations in the United Nations until May 1968, when responsibility for Commonwealth relations with the United Nations passed to the Foreign Office United Nations (Economic) and (Political) Departments. Some residual Commonwealth Office dealings with the United Nations were handled by the International and General Department..
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also
Records of the West and General Africa Department: DO 216
For later records on Commonwealth relations with the United Nations, see:
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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)
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UND file series
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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
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commonwealth Office, Middle East, Western and United Nations Department, 1966-1968
- Commonwealth Relations Office, United Nations and General Africa Department, 1963-1964
- Commonwealth Relations Office, United Nations Department, 1958-1963
- Commonwealth Relations Office, United Nations, Western and Middle East Department, 1964-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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180 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 unless otherwise stated
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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
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6190/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: DO
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Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: United Nations Department and successors: Registered Files (UND Series)
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