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Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED...

Description and record details

Reference DO 220
Title Commonwealth Relations Office: Mediterranean Department: Registered Files (2-MED Series)
Date 1963-1966
Description

This series contains records of the Mediterranean Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office dealing with UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus and Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar.

Arrangement

By former file reference.

Related material

For later records of the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department see FCO 42

For later records of the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department see FCO 27

Held by The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department 2-MED file series
Legal status Public Record(s)
Language

English

Creator

Commonwealth Relations Office, Mediterranean Department, 1965-1966

Physical description 218 file(s)
Access conditions Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition

from 1999 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Administrative/ biographical background

The Mediterranean Department was created in 1965 to handle UK and Commonwealth relations with Cyprus, previously handled by the Constitutional Department. Responsibility for relations with Malta, and Commonwealth relations with Gibraltar, were added when the Malta Department was abolished later in 1965 and its functions absorbed by the Mediterranean Department though the existing separate file series for Malta records remained in use. The Mediterranean Department itself was abolished upon the formation of the Commonwealth Office in August 1966, with responsibility for Cyprus and Malta passing to the Middle East, Western and United Nations Department, and its functions relating to Gibraltar passing to the Gibraltar and South Atlantic Department.