'11/5 Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia' [‎174r] (349/430)

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tions from His Majesty’s GovernmPut was not successful On ^
His Majesty’s Government had been ul! 1 1 11< ^ rew %an informed Fuad Bpv
h.m of the Sheikh’s denial and related t t0 tra , ce an 7 *»eh aS, e ^ y r
His Majesty s Government did not nectssarik* 1 ^ kl “ g ’ or fur thfr informati
^Wished they e couTd 1 ^ d “'i ^ if % existenj
| ■agreement were establisWd\h7yTouTd^ ad,nit '‘ hf «
Fuad Be y ? attitude on this occasion Cognise it as a valid instrumcu
matter again before he left for K„ m ^ a e as,ve ' and he did not
Ihn Sand’s private secretar^/wCatted for h° nth 't 161 ' S^ikh Yus^ Vast
eve,, more evasive, and eventually ht bf^'S-'" ^ ^"ee), proved ,o be
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agreement wotv P n ,^ lr Andrew's
• r-v<ttG het icrary (who acted for him inT » uei ™ ^usuf Yasin
evasive, and eventually he informed Sir ahse ?, ce ). proved to be
'tat ion with Fbn Saud thnf i k ^ Andrew Itvan aftpr ue i
conversation with Fuad Bey about the t green,enTldh’n 0 touch « n Sir Andrew s
or any other British representative coufd hTteiM ed Qatar ’ Sir Andrew Rvan
Fuad Bey s return. In fact, Ibn Saud threw B. ?a P u d ’ pu . rsue the discussion on
heavily overboard. To make the nosh;™ 7 a , d Be y.and the alleged
heavily overboard. To make the poskionouit f (he alleged a~e°m
Thn °S ' Tr' f'd W 0116 conelusion from Sheikh Yusum' AlU . lrew fy* 0 said that
Ibn Saud had disavowed Fuad Bev .,„,i . 1 usut r asm’s attitude viz tint
the existence of The pre- 1 916^reSnt nd d,d n0t endorse state^ematt
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fVt this interview Sheikh Yimnf v •
in the past recognised any specific limits to thew? ' hat P n Saud had not
rulers, though he always treated them in hi i leS of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
system was being organised he had directed th^Tkh SP ’ m - When the Tkhw an
Dukhan or the Araiq (see paragraphs 40 41 not , to g° into the Jebel
not incommode the Sheikh of Qatar. The cotversih,/!' 0rd > T i that the y should
Ibn Saud had written to the Sheikh of Qatar about he i, rned to ‘ he ' ett «r which
Yusuf Yasin s attitude compelled Sir Andrew concession, and Sheikh
,f the threat contained in Ibn Saud’f u.J Ryan to re P eat th e warning that
Government, wnnl<t Ka f , r '^ere earned out. His Maioo+vri,
n me tnreat contained in Ibn Sand’s loffzvr. J i -pedi me warning that
Government would he bound to protect whtf th h r arn ? d out - His -Mafestv’
the Sheikh of Qatar. Sir AndreiRyL ^ l ° ter ' iiry of
attitude on the question of direct corresnondpnrpn s Government’s
Government might think, contrary to the RrhisI ® C ' ea i 1 he Saudi Arabian
address the Sheikh of Qatar direif hut if the"heth V ' that the ^ "ere free to
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Iraq Petroleum Company, Informed tfe^relgn ’ oli^rtaithc' k hi®
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of meridian 48« up to such a Ix,^d\ y^miKentallv TW 8884
between him and His Majesty’s Government Thl eventually be agreed upon
that such an application might give Ibn Saud an exageere'red'i h? c p 01 Qted 011 k
value of the area in dispute^,,!make h.^“mo^S£f„^TT‘ C
with His Majesty’s Government, and expressed the wish that the comnanvIh^H
not approach Ibn Saud until (he frontier negotiat^n^af made XoS
and, at any i ate, not for another six months. P g
, 31. The frontier question was taken up with Fuad Bev later iu the vear
Sir' Uc de, re R U n f H° m t vl * lt to Ibn Saud he expressed the following views to
^ Hcadei Bullard, who had by that time succeeded Sir A. Ryan- Vnv
impression Sir A. Ryan might have had that the Saudi Arabian Government
were prepared to compromise was due to a misunderstanding of his (Fuad Bev’s^
ideas, which were that he should try to find some middle course to recommend to
^mr Governments. He had no counter-proposals to make to the latest offer of
ms Majesty s Government, since the southern boundary proposed by the Saudi
Arabian Government was based on the essential needs of the tribes in that area,
ine British suggestion that the line along longitude 55° East might be moved
eastwards was not of much interest to the Saudi Arabian Government, since the
country in that region was desert. Fuad Bey appeared to be taking advantage
oi the change of Ministers when he suggested that His Majesty’s Government
attached the greatest importance to the Khor-el-Odeid, but much less to the Jebel
Nakhsh, which the Saudi Arabian Government regarded as most important.
Hir R. Bullard held out no hope of any concession beyond that already mentioned,
and could only promise to report to the Foreign Office.
32. Sir R. Bullard informed the Foreign Office that but for the complica
tion introduced by the interests of Petroleum Concessions, Limited, in Qatar he
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