‘1/1 Volume VII Kuwait-Saudi Relations’ [‎141r] (291/598)

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a^th April, 1940.
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_ L Cr ‘^°f® ? f opy of e.tcxtefrrar. from Jodde regarding the
°i 1 , '‘ aa< ^ * w0 ©stabllah a cueto&e post at
mddle of the Saudl-Koweit i mv** m*
Heutral one.
afra
LTqair
f rhe
rTOti
agreement of the 2 na
;col b-cxstb that in the
December 19E£ here called the
i i e u t ral &on e : ■ the C ov e i , nijieri ts
of ::cjd end Kow.it win shere'equal ^rights". I do not iaiow
oncugh e.Vcut the history of the son. to s ar whether any t-ttr - t
i l “ *rf. a + i e . t0 - r ° Vide for Joint oontrol “fthe two
1 1 + ‘ i« -f ^ f ? con1:roi et ^il is ererciaed bv a; .ybody
within its borders at the present time. But assuming that the
warning
it seer.-:'
of the
to us
Agreement
that
of the
Decern
sole guide,
la) ->hile this wording does not preclude the eatablishrnent
post by one party
of a ouotoms
ether, it esay be regarded ns precluding
without the consent of the other, but
connect of the
its establish^
(b)
it cannot have been intended that t *
authority exercised within the ssone
practical need
ever felt.
for the exercise
ore should
at oil, if
be no
the
authority wore
rot have occurred to
aoweit, to deal with
Article 1 11} of the
Loweit territory for
/.• ?v ifest, he carried
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*• ' ;e feel therefore that t,n obligrtion must be assumed to
rest xi eacli of the parties to accept any reasonable suggestions
made by the other for the joint control of the zone, or, "failing
that, not unreasonably or vexatiously to withhold consent to nr A v
reasonable measures of control instituted by the other, on the
understanding that he himaelf is free to tale parallel and
simultaneous measure©,
L. The question whether Iin aud’e desire to have a custci s
post . t : iSru is in fact ! reasonable f is not one on which we would
wish to dogmatise without fuller i ! .formation as to the local
topography. But ws observe that one of the specified routes
laid down in (or at least to be deduced from) Articles 1 and 7
of the Trace Agreement recently initialled at Koweit, i.e. that
between ubaihiy&h in southern oweit and A1 arya in north
eastern Haoa, must almost certainly pass through the neutral
It is possible that afra is the only group of wells, either
inside or outside the zone, from which this route and other
routes leading f roil! the zone into audi Arabia car; be watched,
5. It is rather surprising that
anvone, el ther here
or in Saudi Arabia or
the neutral zone in the Trade Agreement,
Agreement ©ays that 'all goods which leave
Saudi Arabia'' must be accompanied by a,
in a caravan, etc. But many of these goods
tally leave ioweit territory for the neutral zone in the first
place, ■ even though their ultimate destination may be Saudi Arabi.