Commonwealth Secretariat: Senior Officials Meeting

IDENTITY STATEMENT AREA

Reference code(s): ICS 89

Title: Commonwealth Secretariat: Senior Officials Meeting

Date(s): 1971 - 1974

Level of description: Fond

Extent and medium of the unit of description: 1 file

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Name of creator(s): Commonwealth Secretariat

Administrative/Biographical history: 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.

Archival history: Deposited by Prof J M Lee, 1974

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Scope and content: Minutes 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, Aug 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.

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System of arrangement: Chronological

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Language/scripts of material: English

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Finding aids: List available in the ICS Library

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Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: February 2002

Interest: Black

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Public administration

Government

Political institutions

Political systems

Personal/Corporate names

Bax, Neil, fl 1974, economist

Lee, John Michael, fl 1956-1997, political scientist

Priestley, Margaret, fl 1974, economist

Commonwealth Secretariat

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting

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