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Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED...
Catalogue reference: DO 220
What's it about?
DO 220
This series contains records of the Mediterranean Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus and Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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DO 220
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1963-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records of the Mediterranean Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus and Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By former file reference.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later records of the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department see FCO 42
For later records of the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department see FCO 27
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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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2-MED 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)
- Commonwealth Relations Office, Mediterranean Department, 1965-1966
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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218 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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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 1999 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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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Mediterranean Department was created in 1965 to handle UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus, previously handled by the Constitutional Department. Responsibility for relations with Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar, were added when the Malta Department was abolished later in 1965 and its functions absorbed by the Mediterranean Department though the existing separate file series for Malta records remained in use. The Mediterranean Department itself was abolished upon the formation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966, with responsibility for Cyprus and Malta passing to the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department, and its functions relating to Gibraltar passing to the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C6229/
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