Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1956 - 1967 (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
No. of Boxes: 8
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
UN. Office for Special Political Affairs (1956-1972: Bunche)
Series consists of incoming and outgoing unnumbered code cables (signed originals), numbered code cables (carbon copies) and clear cables (carbon copies) relating to military, political and administrative matters, including frontier lines surveys, deployment and troop strength, aircraft overflight regulations, freedom of movement, incidents, the repatriation of prisoners of war, the withdrawal of foreign troops from Egypt, the expulsion of foreigners, Suez Canal levies, the return of El Arish settlement to Egypt's civil administration, the blockade of the Strait of Tiran, the Secretary-General's reports to the Security Council, UNEF I reorganizations, logistical assistance to the United Nations Yemen Observation Mission (UNYOM) and the United Nations Operations in the Congo (ONUC), budget and finance, communications, transport, personnel, and miscellaneous general services. Primary correspondents include Dag Hammarskjold, George Lansky, U Thant, Robert Vaughan and the UNEF I force commanders
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Chronological
