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TitleCommonwealth: Secretariat Senior Officials Meeting

Held atInstitute of Commonwealth Studies

Reference codeICS89

Date1971-1974

Creator
- Commonwealth SecretariatMore Info on CreatorLess Info on Creator
  The Commonwealth Secretariat was established in June 1965 by a decision of the 1964 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Prior to this date intra-Commonwealth affairs had been administered by British Civil Servants. The Secretariat was designed to assist internal co-operation between member states and was never intended to have executive powers.

Scope and ContentMinutes and papers on Commonwealth Secretariat Senior Officials Meeting, Marlborough House, London (20-23 May 1974); including background papers on comparative techniques for government for Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting in Ottawa (August 1973); papers on current and projected work of the Commonwealth Secretariat; paper by Neil Bax and Margaret Priestley 'Forward Planning and Financial Control on the Commonwealth', with associated material; papers on appointment of a consultant to undertake study of financial control and development expenditure; draft minutes of first session of Senior Officials Meeting (20 May 1974), with manuscript notes on the meeting by J M Lee.

Conditions governing accessAt least 24 hours notice before a research visit. Access to this collection is unrestricted for the purpose of private study and personal research within the supervised environment and restrictions of the library. However, access to individual items in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library archival collections may be restricted under the Data Protection Act or the Freedom of Information Act.

Extent1 file

System of ArrangementChronological

Finding aidsHandlist available in the Special Collections reading room. A pdf version of the handlist is also attached to this description.

Related files

http://archives.ulrls.lon.ac.uk/resources/ICS89.pdf

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