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The 1951 Refugee Convention
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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Protocols of Treaties
Catalogue reference: FO 93
What's it about?
FO 93
This series contains protocols of treaties. These are documents reciting the agreed terms of the treaty, signed and sealed by the plenipotentiaries (the people acting on behalf of the governments or organisations involved) of each side. In some...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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FO 93
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Protocols of Treaties
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Date (When the record was created)
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1695-2003
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains protocols of treaties. These are documents reciting the agreed terms of the treaty, signed and sealed by the plenipotentiaries (the people acting on behalf of the governments or organisations involved) of each side. In some instances additional documents, such as the full powers (or authorisations granted to the plenipotentiaries) are also included. Ratifications exchanged by heads of state after the signing and sealing of the protocols are in series FO 94.
The series includes a volume relating to treaties with Algiers, 1695 to 1824. Otherwise, the earliest item dates from 1775.
The text of most of these treaties, as published in UK Parliament Command papers, is available to view at UK Treaties Online.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Arranged by country, region or territory, and then largely by date.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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For later accessions of treaties, see FCO 85
Similar treaty material will be found in SP 108
There are other files relating to trade agreements in BT 269
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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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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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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8588 volume(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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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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No further accruals expected
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7408/
Catalogue hierarchy
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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Within the department: FO
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