The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman and former Prime Minister Arthur Balfour.

• The first is the Balfour Declaration of 1917: An official letter from the British Foreign Office headed by Arthur Balfour, the UK's official Foreign Secretary (from December 1916 to October 1919), to Lord Rothschild, who was seen as a representative of the Jewish people. The letter stated that the British government "view^* with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people".

• The second is the Balfour Declaration of 1926, recognized the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fully autonomous states.

See also

• Balfour (disambiguation)

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