‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎120] (137/578)

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PERSIA—NO. XXI—1007.
Who having communicated to each other their full powers, found in good and
due form, have agreed on the following :—
Arrangement concerning Persia.
The Governments of Great Britain and Russia having mutually engaged to
respect the integrity and independence of Persia, and sincerely desiring the pre
servation of order throughout that country and its peaceful development, as
well as the permanent establishment of equal advantages for the trade and industry
of all other nations ;
Considering that each of them has, for geographical and economic reasons,
a special interest in the maintenance of peace and order in certain provinces of
Persia adjoining, or in the neighbourhood of the Russian frontier on the one hand,
and the frontiers of Afghanistan and Baluchistan on the other hand ; and being
desirous of avoiding all cause of conflict between their respective bateregts iu the
above mentioned Provinces of Persia ;
Have agreed on the following terms :—
Article 1.
Great Britain engages not to seek for herself, and not to support in favour of
British subjects, or in favour of the subjects of third Powers, any Concession
of a political or commercial nature—such as Concessions for railways, banks,
telegraphs, roads, transport, insurance, etc.—beyond a line starting fiom Kasr-
i-Shirin, passing through Isfahan, Yezd, Kakhk, and ending at a point on the
Persian frontier at the intersection of the Russian and Afghan frontiers, and
not to oppose, directly or indirectly, demands for similar Concessions in this
region which are supported by the Russian Governmeit. It is understood that
the abovementioned places are included in the region in which Great Britain
engages not to seek the Concessions referred to.
Article 2 .
Russia, on her part, engages not to seek for herself and not to support, in
favour of Russian subjects, or in favour of the subjects of third Powers, any
Concessions of a political or commercial nature—such as Concessions for rail
ways, banks, telegraphs, roads, transport, insurance, etc.—beyond a line going
from the Afghan frontier by way of Gazik, Birjand, Kerman and ending at Bunder
Abbas, and not to oppose directly or indirectly, demands for similar Concessions
in this region which are supported by the British Government. It is understood
that the abovementioned places are included in the region in which Russia engages
not to seek the Concessions referred to.
Article 3.
Russia, on her part, engages not to oppose, without previous arrangement
with Great Britain, the grant of any Concessions whatever to British subjects