Foreign Office: Central Department and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Southern...

This series contains records of the Central Department of the Foreign Office, (dealing with UK relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden between January 1967 and October 1968), and records of the Southern European Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (dealing with UK relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Malta, Cyprus, Andorra, and external relations of Gibraltar from October 1968-1974).

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' (either at the start of the piece reference or at the end), which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Southern European Department, 1968-2004
• Foreign Office, Central Department, 1962-1968

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

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The Central Department of the Foreign Office (which was responsible for relations between Austria, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Iceland, Irish Republic, Liechtenstein, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey) was disbanded upon the creation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968. Relations with Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Malta, Cyprus, and the external relations of Gibraltar (previously the responsibility of the Commonwealth Office, Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department and Middle East, Western and United Nations General Department) were transferred to the new Southern European Department until 2004. Responsibility for Andorra passed from the Western European Department to the Southern European Department in 1977.