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‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [87] (410/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (289 folios). It was created in 1933. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XXV—1921.
Ixxxvii
At the same time, in view of the repugnanceVhich the Russian Federal Govern
ment feels to enjoying the fruit of the policy of usurpation of the Tsarist
Government, it renounces all claim to the Achouradeh Islands and to the other
islands on the Astrabad Littoral, and restores to Persia the village of Firouzeh
and the adjacent land ceded to' Russia in virtue of the Convention of May 28, 1893.
The Persian Government agrees for its part that the Russian Sarakhs, or “ old ”
Sarakhs, and the land adjacent to the Sarakhs River, shall be retained by Russia.
The two High Contracting Parties shall have equal rights of usage over the
Atrak River and the other frontier rivers and waterways. In order finally to
solve the question of the waterways and all disputes concerning frontiers or terri
tories, a Commission, composed of Russian and Persian representatives, shall be
appointed.
Article 4.
In consideration of the fact that each nation has the right to determine freely
its political destiny, each of the two Contracting Parties formally expresses its
desire to abstain from any intervention in the internal affairs of the other.
Article 5.
The two High Contracting Parties undertake
(1) To prohibit the formation or presence within their respective territories
of any organizations or groups of persons, irrespective of the name by which they
are known, whose object is to engage in acts of hostility against Persia or Russia,
or against the Allies of Russia.
They will likewise prohibit the formation of armed troops within their respective
tersitories with the aforementioned object.
(2) Not to allow a third Party or any organization, whatever it be called, which
i» hostile to the other Contracting Party, to import or to convey in transit across
their countries material which can be used against the other Party.
(3) To prevent by all means in their power the presence within their territories
or within the territories of their Allies of all armies or forces of a third Party in
cases in which the presence of such forces would be regarded as a menace to the
frontiers, interests or safety of the other Contracting Party.
Article 6 .
If a third Party should attempt to carry out a policy of usurpation by means
of armed intervention in Persia, or if such Power should desire to use Persian
territory as a base of operations against Russia, or if a Foreign Power should
threaten the frontiers of Federal Russia or those of its Allies, and if the Persian
Government should not be able to put a stop to such menace after having been
once called upon to do so by Russia, Russia shall have the right to advance her
troops into the Persian interior for the purpose of carrying out the military opera
tions necessary for its defence. Russia undertakes, however, to withdraw her
troops from Persian territory as soon as the danger has been removed.
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The volume is the fifth edition of volume 13 of a collection of historic treaties, engagements and sanads (charters) relating to India and its neighbouring countries, namely Persia and Afghanistan. This volume, originally compiled by Charles Umpherston Aitchison, Under Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign Department, was revised in 1930 and published in 1933 by the Manager of Publications in Delhi, under the authority of the Government of India.
Part 1 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Persia and dating from between 12 April 1763 and 10 May 1929. The treaties refer to: trade agreements; foreign relations; prohibition and suppression of the slave trade; sovereignty and status of Persian regions; frontier negotiations; foreign concessions; telegraph lines. Part 2 of the volume contains treaties and engagements relating to Afghanistan and dating from between 17 June 1809 and 6 May 1930. The treaties relate to: foreign relations; the establishment of boundaries and frontier negotiations; peace treaties; commercial relations; import of arms. A number of appendices follow part 2, which contain the text of treaties relating to both Persia and Afghanistan.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (289 folios)
- Arrangement
The volume is arranged into two parts covering Persia and Afghanistan respectively, as are the appendices at the end of the volume. Each part is divided into a number of chapters, identified by Roman numerals, and arranged chronologically, from the earliest treaties to the most recent. At the beginning of each part is a general introduction to the treaties and engagements that follow.
There is a contents page at the front of the volume (ff 4-8) which lists the geographical regions and treaties. The contents pages refers to the volume’s pagination system. There is a subject index, arranged alphabetically, at the end of the volume (ff 277-87) which also refers to the volume’s pagination system.
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Foliation: The foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover, and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio (except for the front cover where the folio number is on the verso The back of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'v'. ).
Pagination: The volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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