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Catalogue description Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South Pacific Department: Registered Files (FP file series)
| Reference: | FCO 107 |
|---|---|
| Title: | Foreign and Commonwealth Office: South Pacific Department: Registered Files (FP file series) |
| Description: |
This series consists of records of the South Pacific Department dealing with UK relations with Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Hebrides (later Vanuata), New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Pitcairn Islands, the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Western Samoa. |
| Date: | 1979-1986 |
| Arrangement: |
Arrangement is by former file reference within annual file cycles. |
| Related material: |
For earlier records see |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | FP file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, South Pacific Department, 1979-1994 |
| Physical description: | 1622 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open unless otherwise stated |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 2010 Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
| Selection and destruction information: | Policy documents selected under the Operation Selection Policies (OSP 13 and OSP 23) |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The South Pacific Department was formed in 1979, the successor to the Pacific Dependent Territories Department (1973-1979) and the South West Pacific Department (1973-1979). At its creation, the department had responsibilities for the following: Australia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, the New Hebrides (later Vanuata), the Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Western Samoa. In 1986 it also acquired responsibilities for the French and USA territories in the South Pacific. The South Pacific Department ran until 1994 when it was succeeded by the Far Eastern and Pacific Department. |
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