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Commonwealth Relations Office: Malawi and Zambia Department: Registered Files, Malawi...

Description and record details

Reference DO 208
Title Commonwealth Relations Office: Malawi and Zambia Department: Registered Files, Malawi (MCA Series)
Date 1965-1967
Description

This series contains records created by the Malawi and Zambia Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office and its successor the Malawi Department of the Commonwealth Office, dealing with United Kingdom and Commonwealth political and economic relations with Malawi.

Arrangement

By former file reference

Related material

For later Commonwealth Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office records on Malawi see FCO 29

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department MCA file series
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Commonwealth Relations Office, Malawi and Zambia Department, 1965-1966

Physical description 43 file(s)
Access conditions Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

From 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Accumulation dates 1965-1968
Administrative/ biographical background

The Malawi and Zambia Department was formed when the former Zambia Department, Malawi Department and Malawi and Central Africa Economic Department were merged, part of the general restructuring of responsibilities which resulted from the changes in levels of work relating to the states of the former Central African Federation after the unilateral declaration of independence by Rhodesia. A separate Malawi Department was again created under the Commonwealth Office. The Department was abolished upon the formation of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in October 1968, when responsibility for relations with Malawi passed to the Central African Department.