Commonwealth Office: Asia Economic Department: Registered Files (AE Series)

FCO 11

1967-1968

This series contains the records of the Asia Economic Department of the Commonwealth Office dealing with the economic affairs of Commonwealth Asia, development issues (including the operation of the Colombo Plan and the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East and the Freedom from Hunger campaign) and use and development of natural resources.

By former file reference

For earlier records see DO 189

For later Ministry of Overseas Development South Asia Department files see OD 27

For later Foreign and Commonwealth Office South East Asian Department files see FCO 15

For later Foreign and Commonwealth Office South Asian Department files see FCO 37

AE file series

Public Record(s)

English

100 file(s)

Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated

In 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Asia

Resources

Aid and development

Operations, battles and campaigns

Originally established in the Commonwealth Relations Office in 1964, the Asia Economic Department continued in existence in the Commonwealth Office until the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office(FCO) in October 1968. Its economic relations functions were then distributed between the geographical departments which covered Asia in the FCO (South Asian Department for Ceylon, India and Pakistan, and South East Asian Department for Malaysia and Singapore), while remaining development and aid matters relating to the Colombo Plan became the responsibility of the South Asia Department of the Ministry of Overseas Development.