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The 1951 Refugee Convention
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Series
Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Multilateral Treaties
Catalogue reference: FO 949
What's it about?
FO 949
This series contains original multilateral treaties and agreements with foreign and commonwealth countries after 1 January 1969 when the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office were merged to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office....
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 949
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Title (The name of the record)
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Multilateral Treaties
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Date (When the record was created)
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1907-2002
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains original multilateral treaties and agreements with foreign and commonwealth countries after 1 January 1969 when the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Relations Office were merged to form the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Documents will no-longer be transfered into this series. Instead they will be transfered into FCO 85.
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
In the case of those treaties for which the United Kingdom acts as a depository, ratifications and accessions etc., now or subsequently transferred will be given a catalogue reference number following that of the treaty itself, using sub-numbers.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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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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1099 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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1982 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
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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/C8248/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
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