Record revealed
The 1951 Refugee Convention
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Series
Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Ratifications of Treaties
Catalogue reference: FO 94
What's it about?
FO 94
This series contains ratifications of treaties. The date given for FO 94/1-949 is the date of foreign ratification. From FO 94/950 the date of deposit or exchange of ratification is given instead of the date of foreign ratification unless...
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 94
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Ratifications of Treaties
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Date (When the record was created)
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1761-2005
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains ratifications of treaties. The date given for FO 94/1-949 is the date of foreign ratification. From FO 94/950 the date of deposit or exchange of ratification is given instead of the date of foreign ratification unless otherwise indicated. The place of signature is given from FO 94/950 onwards.
Documents will no-longer be transfered into this series. Instead they will be transfered into FCO 85.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
By country.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Similar treaty material will be found in SP 108
Some treaties previously in this series will now be found in FCO 85
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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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3269 boxes and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure 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. Any further accruals to this series will now be transferred into FCO 85.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C7409/
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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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