مجموعة ٦ / ٦٧ (٦) "حدود جنوب شرق الجزيرة العربية وقطر: امتيازات النفط في الساحل المتصالح" [و‎‎٦] (٤٠٢/١٨)

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«eolo4^l h SH^ e v f % b ^ thB Qompmv proposes to tuJte a
geoio i-al ouryay of the area. In 193a Sir H. Bullard, then
•Ui.. minister In Jedda reported that there would be acne prospect
y«««nt cm the boundary, provided that His Majesty's
G nl,®^ ‘ 4 v 6 ® PPopared to cede to Ibn Saud either the Jabel
or -©l-Odeid* His Majesty’ a OoverBrnent wars unable to
agree to such a concession and the negotiations ware allowed to
aapoe#
, ^ ? n bhe co «rse of these negotiations, which are described
in deueil in foreign Office Printed KaKorandum Ho.1899# of 1640,
.iis; •auai Arabian Government had advanced two principal argunionts
in support of their claimss (a) the whole of the coast had once
belonged to Ibn Gaud's ancestors; (b) the disputed area is
liihabxtea by nanadic tribes owing allegiance and paying tribute
to Ibn Baud*
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The first of th&sa argument® has never been properly
substantiated and, in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government,
doss not deserve serious consideration* The second argument,
however, has considerable force* Guch evidence as is available
tends to show that the country adjoining the Khor-el-odeid and the
Jebel Knksh ia ihh&M ted by tribes who owe allegiance and pay
tribute to Ibn Send, but who are probably beyond the effective
control of the Sheiks of Abu Dhabi and c.atar* The allegiance of
the tribes inhabiting the rest of the frontier area is more dubious
but it liiay safely be said that nowhere in the disputed area are the
inhabitants under the effective control of the rulers on whose
behalf His Vajesty's Government have claimed sovereignty up to the
"Riyadh line"*
iihort of themselves establishing or causing to b©
established, effective control over the disputed area, there
is no conclusive reply which Hi® Majesty’s Government can make to
this argument* The Anglo-Turkish Conventions of 1913 and 1914
do not bind King Ibn Gaud to refrain from extending hi® sovereignty
beyond the boundaries fixed therein, nor i® Article Six of the
Treaty of Jed da of 1927 by any means sufficient, though helpful.
By this Article the Government of Saudi Arabia undertook ton
maintain friendly and peaceful relations with the •.••••»•*.Sheiks
of Gat fir and the Oman Ooaat, who are in special treaty relatione
with Him Britannic Majesty." Hi® Majesty’s Government have, in
the past, contended that this- under talcing committed the Gaudi
Arabian Government to acceptance erf' the boundaries of those
states, as they then existed. Sine© these boundaries have never
been defined, the value of this argument is dubious except in the
case of Khor-sl-Qdeid. The right of the Sheik of Abu Dhabi to
this territory was specifically recognised by His Majesty’s
Government as early as 1906 and it can be contended that the tlaudi
Arabian Government are similarly committed by the Treaty of Jeda®.
The arguments advanced by His Majesty* s Government and
the Government of Saudi Arabia in support of their respective
4U% im arc fully, set out in Foreign Office Printed Memorandum
Ho* 15997 Of 1940.
Ill U£xmilt?a en,ts. and
Ma-lesty* B Gov9P.tM8at«
The ap«clfic oonmltmsntB of fiia liejeaty's OOTeranant are
in re mp-rt of certain portions only of the disputed area, having
JffWrfMtta Gaud the "Riyadh Hina", they oould preauiaobly not claim