'XXII/10 Status of Kuwait & Negotiations with Turkey.' [‎46r] (91/446)

17. The local authorities shall not interfere in any way with the houses, buildings,
land, or other property of the Commission, or with its funds, or with the discharge of
their duties by the officers of the police, pilotage, or other services maintained by
the Commission, or with wharves, jetties, docks, or quays in or on the banks of the
river belonging to private persons.
18. The transfer to the Commission of any buoys or lights in the approaches to the
Shatt-el-Arab shall not be deemed to affect the territorial jurisdiction in the waters
where such buoys or lights are placed, or be made a ground on the part of the
Imperial Ottoman Government for claiming that such waters are within its territorial
jurisdiction, nor shall anything in this Convention be deemed to give the Commission
power to exercise jurisdiction or to carry out duties or to hold land outside the limits of
the Ottoman Empire without the consent of the territorial Power, or to affect the
operation or the interpretation of the provisions of any treaty or arrangement prescribing
or defining the limits of the said Empire.
19. This agreement shall be binding during twenty-one years from the day of its
signature. In case neither of the contracting parties shall have given notice to
the other, twelve months before the expiration of the said period of twenty-one years,
of the intention to terminate the agreement, it shall remain in force until the expiration
of one year from the day on which either of the contracting parties shall have
denounced it.
ANNEX 4.
Kowek.
HIS Majesty’s Government consider the frontier on the north to be a line
running from Khor-as-Sabiyah so as to pass immediately south of Umm Qasr and
Safwam to Jabal Sanan and thence to the Batin. On the south his boundary is
considered to run eastwards from Jabal Manifah on the coast to the Na’airiyah hill at the
north-western corner of Itadaif. On the west the Shaikhdom is bounded between Jabal
Sanam and Hafar by the Batin, and south of Hafar the border is the line dividing
Summan from Dahanah as far south as the point where that line is intersected by the
route from Wabrah to Riyadh.
Districts and Islands .—The Shaikhdom, considered from the physical point of
view, falls naturally into two parts, one to the north and the other to the south of a
line joining Koweit town and Riqa’i. In the northern block lie the districts or tracts
of Batin, Shiqqaq, Batih, Umm-al-Khilan, Yah, Qira-al-Marru, Zaqlah, and Zor. The
southern block comprises the three great divisions of Summan, Dibdibah, and Umm
Janaib ; and the last, which lies along the coast to the south of Koweit Bay, is further
subdivided into districts named Shaqq, l^ra’ab Adan, Salu, Hazaim, and Sudah.
^The maritime possessions of Koweit consist of the islands of Bubiyan, Warba, and
Failakah, which, with its northern and southern outliers of Mashjan and ’Auhah, is
situated at the mouth of Koweit Bay, and of the islets of Kubbar, Qaru and Umm-al-
Maradim.
A map is enclosed showing the limits of Koweit.
ANNEX 5.
Mohammerah Frontier.
HIS Majesty’s Government have already informed the Imperial Ottoman Govern
ment of the great importance which they attach to the maintenance of the frontier
status quo, as locally observed, in the neighbourhood of Mohammerah.
His Majesty’s Government now' have the honour to explain their views in greater
detail, and they would preface their statement by observing that they have not only
re-examined all the evidence, both oral and documentary, which was laid before the
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