Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South East Asian Department:...

FCO 15

1966-1994

This series contains records of the South East Asia Department of the Foreign Office to October 1968 dealing with UK relations with Burma, Laos, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, the South East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) and the International Control Commissions in Indo-China, as well as Foreign Office correspondence on matters relating to Commonwealth states in the area from January 1967. From October 1968, the records are those of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office South East Asian Department, covering the same states and organisations with the exception of Indonesia, for which responsibility passed to the South West Pacific Department.

Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles.

References for born-digital records are automatically generated and display a 'Z' after a forward slash, which distinguish them from traditional references allocated to paper and digitised records.

For Asia Economic Department files see FCO 11

D and FA file series

Public Record(s)

English

• Foreign and Commonwealth Office, 1968-1968
• Foreign Office, South East Asian Department, 1947-1968

8331 paper files and digital records

Open unless otherwise stated

From 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Topics

International

Asia

Treaties and alliances

Series is accruing

The South East Asian Department of the Foreign Office continued with largely unaltered functions under the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, except that responsibility for relations with Indonesia passed to the South West Pacific Department.