Armenian Genocide

M Bimmler made this Freedom of Information request to Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The authority would like to / has responded by post to this request.

From: M Bimmler

8 February 2010

Dear Foreign and Commonwealth Office,

on October 16, 2008, your Office released information concerning
the Armenian Genocide to Mr Geoffrey Robertson QC or his
instructing solicitor, Mr Bernard Andonian (cf. Letter from Lynne
Rocks, FCO, to Bernard Andonian, 16 October 2008, referenced in
Robertson, Geoffrey: "Was there an Armenian Genocide?" available at
http://www.geoffreyrobertson.com/pdf/Arm...
footnote 72).

On March 13, 2009, your Office released further information (Lynne
Rocks, Russia, South Caucasia and Central Asia Directorate, FCO, to
Bernard Andonian, 13 March 2009, referenced in ibid. footnote 74).

Noting briefly that the Freedom of Information Act is applicant
blind, I ask you to send me a copy of all such information as has
been released to Mr Robertson / Mr Andonian.

I should mention that I was unable to find such information in the
"Released documents 2009" and "Released documents 2008" section of
your website.

I hereby express a preference for receiving an electronic copy of
these documents to this website.
Should this be impossible, I shall ask you to send the documents to
me by postal mail and will advise you of my address accordingly at
that stage.

Yours faithfully,

Michael Bimmler

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

8 February 2010

Dear Mr Bimmler,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request. It has been passed to the relevant section within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to deal with. They will be in touch with you should your request need clarification.

We received your request on 08 February 2010 and will aim to respond within 20 working days.

Yours Sincerely

Scott Macdonald

Information Management Group
Information Rights Team

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

5 March 2010


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Dear Mr Bimmler

Please see attached a letter regarding your request under the Freedom of
Information Act.

Yours sincerely,

David Foster

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5 March 2010


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Dear Mr Bimmler,

Could you please provide us with a postal address so that we can provide
you with the documents which relate to this request.

Yours sincerely,

David Foster

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From: M Bimmler

5 March 2010

Dear Mr Foster,

thank you for your email dated 3 March 2010.

1) I shall send you my postal address by separate private email so
that you can send me the released documents.

2) May I just ask you to clarify something? You mentioned
redactions to the documents, both for irrelevance and for section
27 (1) (a) reasons. Are these redactions that were also made in the
response to Mr Andonian's request or have these redactions been
added only now for the purposes of my own request? I have not been
quite sure how to read your letter on this aspect.

Thanks a lot for your assistance,

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bimmler

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

8 March 2010

Mr Bimmler,

Thank you for your email. The redactions which I mentioned are mostly those made in the initial release. In addition, some very minor redactions have been made in withholding the names of officials. This was originally over looked but has been corrected within the documents that we are releasing.

Thank you for supplying a copy of your postal address, we will send the documents through to you as stated.

Yours sincerely.

David Foster

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From: M Bimmler

12 March 2010

Dear Mr Foster,

could you please confirm that the documents have been sent? I have
not yet received anything by today and will leave for vacation
tomorrow but I shall ask for them to be redirected to me if they
arrive in the next few days.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bimmler

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

15 March 2010

Mr Bimmler,

I can confirm that the documents have been sent out to the address that you pov us in a previous email.

Please contact us urgently if these have still not arrived.

Regards

David

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From: M Bimmler

15 March 2010

Dear Mr Foster,

I left the UK for Switzerland on Saturday but have arranged for my
mail to be forwarded until I return. I suggest that I wait until
the end of the week to see whether any forwarded letter arrives
here and will otherwise be in touch with my Swiss address.

Thank you for your kind assistance,

Yours sincerely,

M Bimmler

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From: M Bimmler

18 March 2010

Mr Foster,

I received the documents today - many thanks.

Yours sincerely,

Michael Bimmler

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