Commonwealth Relations Office and Commonwealth Office: Economic Relations Divisions...

DO 189

1959-1967

This series contains files of the Economic Relations Departments I and II and their successors from 1964, the Western Economic and Asia Economic Departments of the Commonwealth Relations Office and from 1966 of the Commonwealth Office. Subjects covered in the files include Commonwealth budgets, consortium meetings of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Colombo Plan, the Association of South East Asia, the Freedom from Hunger Campaign, the British Phosphate Commission and the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, and general trade and economic relations.

For later records of the Asia Economic Department see FCO 11

For later records of the Western Economic Department see FCO 62

ER and WED file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Commonwealth Office, Asia Economic Department, 1966-1968
• Commonwealth Office, Western Economic Department, 1966-1966
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Asia Economic Department, 1964-1966
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department I, 1955-1964
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Economic Relations Department II, 1955-1964
• Commonwealth Relations Office, Western Economic Department, 1964-1966

704 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure

Topics

International

Trade and commerce

Asia

Aid and development

1960-1967

From July 1961, when the Colombo Plan Department was absorbed into the new Department of Technical Co-operation, matters relating to the Commonwealth and the Colombo plan were dealt with Economic Relations Department II, along with general development and aid and economic matters relating to the 'new' Commonwealth. Economic Relations Department I dealt with relations with the 'old' Commonwealth.