Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), created in 2020 through the merger of the former Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO)—commonly called the Foreign Office (FO)—and the former Department for International Development (DFID), is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. The predecessor Foreign & Commonwealth Office had been responsible for protecting and promoting British interests worldwide, and was itself created in 1968 by the merger of the Foreign Office and the Commonwealth Office.