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File 4880/1913 Pt 2 'Turco-Persian Frontier Commission: protocol of 1913' [165r] (197/499)
The record is made up of 1 item (248 folios). It was created in 1913. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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[This D ocument is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
YOUR telegram No. 650 of 7th September. _ _
I discussed matter to-day with Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs, M. Minorsky,
and head of Eastern section. # • r i,- j- rr i
Russian Government entirely agree with you as to necessity ot binding iurKey
and Persia to abide by results of work of present Commission. They think, however,
that to submit to Turkey a convention such as proposed by you drafted in London
would constitute anew phase of the negotiations, and would afford Turkish Government
excellent pretext for indefinite delays. ^ ^ ^
They consider that a final protocol, signed by Turco-Persian rrontiei Commission,
can be made absolutely binding to the parties. , x ,
If necessary, the delegates can be furnished with full powers, and protocol can be
ratified by Turkey and Persia besides being countersigned by Russian and British
Ambassadors. . . , ^
Protocol can contain clauses as binding as a convention, but as regards the
provision for arbitration of Russian and British commissioners Russian Government
think Turks may dislike the term “ arbitration.” It would be, they think, preferable
to provide that in cases of difference between Turkish and Persian commissioners
matter shall be finally decided by majority of four commissioners.
As to proposed reference to a frontier line drawn on map as being final,
M. Minorsky declares that, until commissioners have been on the ground, any line
which they can draw upon a map must have portions dotted as being doubtful (apart
altogether from Pusht-i-Kuh district), so that frontier is more exactly described by
recapitulating the terms of the last Anglo-Russian note and annexes.
Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs appeared to hold so stiongly to above
PERSIA.
[September 9.]
CONFIDENTIAL.
Section 1.
[41567]
No. 1.
Mr. O'Beirne to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received September 9.)
(No. 330.) >
(Telegraphic.) R
St. Petersburgh, September 9, 1913.
views that I could but agree to submit them to you.
[1870 i—1]
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Copy to India
25 SEP 1913
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Correspondence, reports and maps relating to the 1913 Turco-Persian Frontier Commission, and the production of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913 .
The primary correspondents are: HM Consul-General at Teheran (Sir Walter Beaupre Townley); HM Consul-General at Constantinople; HM Vice-Consul at Kashr-i Shirin (E B Soane); the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department; the Turkish Minister for Foreign Affairs (Said Halim); the Russian Consul-General in Baghdad (M Orlof); the Russian Ambassador to the UK (Count Von Benckendorff); HM Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); and Albert Charles Wratislaw, head of the British section of the Commission.
The file opens with correspondence regarding reported Turkish military build-up in Kasr-i Shirin [Qaṣr-e Shīrīn], disturbances on the Baghdad-Kermaāshāh route, local raids by Persian and Turkish tribesmen, possible concessions to Turkey in the Zohab [Zohāb] district, and the difficulty of reaching an agreement which would be acceptable to Sunni and Shia tribes in the Zohab region. A map of the Zohab region is included at folio 305.
The bulk of the file concerns arrangements for the Frontier Commission, discussing: the push for a settlement; the composition of the British, Russian, Turkish and Persian commissions; the need to use surveying and triangulation to improve on pre-existing, inaccurate maps; the wording of the internal rules [ Règlement Intérieur ] to govern the Commission; arrangements over work to be conducted by the northern and southern sections of the Commission; and arrangements to preserve the rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in regions to be transferred to Turkey.
Key items:
Folios 224-29 Declaration regarding the frontier, signed by Sir Edward Grey and I Hakky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , with four accompanying maps:
- Map No 1, Sketch Map showing Turco-Persian Frontier West and South of Hawizeh [Howeyzeh];
- Map No 2, Sketch Map of Muhammareh [Khorramshar] to indicate the Turco-Persian Boundary;
- Map No 3, Sheet No I, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir [Rūdkhāneh-ye Bahmanshīr] including Muhammareh [Khorramshar] & 'Abbádán I [Ābādān];
- Map No 4, Sheet No II, Map of Shatt-Al-'Arab & Bahmanshir, including Muhammareh & 'Abbádán I.
Folios 68-87 Copy of the Protocole relative à la Délimitation turco-persane, signé à Constantinople le 4 (17) Novembre, 1913, plus: additional copies of the four maps detailed above; Annex (A), Règlement intérieur de la Commission de Délimitation de la Frontière turco-persane ; Annex (B) Statement by the Ottoman Government pledging to maintain, within the territories granted by Persia to Turkey, the rights and obligations granted to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd by the Persian Imperial Government under the Convention of 28 May, 1901; also included are notes on the meetings of the frontier delegates at Constantinople, 4-9 November, written by the British Commissioner, Albert Charles Wratislaw.
Folio 67 is a collection header sheet, giving the subject heading and a list of correspondence references found within the part, listed by year.
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