Details

Subject(s)

• Diplomatic and consular service [Browse]
• Foreign relations [Browse]
• Politics and government [Browse]
• Great Britain—Foreign relations—1906-1966—Sources [Browse]
• Bulgaria [Browse]
• Bulgaria—Foreign and political relations—Ghana [Browse]

Related name

• Great Britain. Foreign Office [Browse]
• Coherent Digital (Firm) [Browse]

Series

• General Correspondence from 1906-1966 (Great Britain. Foreign Office. Political Departments) ; FO371-188635. [More in this series]
• Cold War Eastern Europe. [More in this series]
• FO371: Foreign Office: Political Departments: General Correspondence from 1906-1966 ; FO371-188635

Data source

• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1947-1982
• Cold War Eastern Europe, 1961-1966: Module 2
• History Commons

Summary note

A file containing documents concerning Ghanaian diplomats in Bulgaria. Papers in the file include a report that the Ghanaian Ambassador in Sofia had asked the United States representative there for dollars, as he had not been able to obtain sterling from the Ghanaian government since the breakdown of Anglo-Ghanaian relations. The report from the British Embassy in Sofia notes that this probably resulted more from the overall state of the Ghanaian economy, as Anglo-Ghanaian trade had not been significantly affected by the diplomatic breakdown. It was also possible that disputes amongst the Ghanaian diplomats following a coup attempt in Ghana may have precipitated the request -- and that the Bulgarian National Bank's refusal to issue him with sterling reflected the suspicions that Bulgaria still felt about the Ghanaian regime.

Notes

• Title from Cold War Eastern Europe Module II.
• File date: 1966.
• Date document(s) were released to the public domain: 1996.

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