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<p>The vast majority of UK material relevant to the death of Dag Hammarskjold has
already been released to The National Archives at Kew, where it is accessible to the
public. In response to a request from the UN Independent Panel established in 2015
to examine the value of new information related to the death of former UN Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) coordinated a
search across all relevant UK Government departments. None of these departments identified
any pertinent material. In addition, the FCO also reviewed again a small number of
file extracts that had previously been withheld. The review concluded that, although
these file extracts did not contain any substantive information likely to be of interest
to the Panel, they should continue to be withheld under Section 3(4) of the UK Public
Records Act, for security-related reasons. The FCO wrote to the Panel, assuring it
that the redactions consist of short individual pieces of text and that the FCO had
not retained whole documents or files. Our assessment continues to be that all the
information of value to the Panel has already been released to The National Archives
and that release of the redacted material would not provide anything of additional
value for the Panel’s work.</p>
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