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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [‎138v] (280/940)

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The record is made up of 1 file (468 folios). It was created in 20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949. It was written in English. 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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t?nntP^ Si vvLS f + i fc - iis c ? I10 °?oion up to April igi+U was latfr
granted, v/hen this extension was on the point of expiring.
the company started negotiations for a further extension.
No extension or renewal of this concession was granted.
r^ C « USe decision of the Persian Government to grant
no concessions to foreign companies. The area was
examined by Shell Group geologists, whose report of the
o^i prospects was not very encouraging®
( h ) Proposed Soviet-Iranian Oil Company
April 1946 the then Premier of Iran, Qavam as
, a ^ e ed, imder pressure, to the formation of a
^?V 0Vle !: Iranian 011 Company with rights over a wide
valia i for°Rn hern Ira P . The a ereement was to have been
valid for 50 years, during tho first 25 years of which
thereafter, ^ 49 ^ ° ent ° f the sha ^ s 5 0 per cent
Pto Promising part of the concession was the
Caspian litteral where moderate oil prospects certainly
exiot, but whence the only economic outlet is to Russian
markets. The conditions of the southern Persian oilfields
cannot be expected to be repeated in this area and it
would be unlikely for the U.S.S.E. devote a'substantial
amount 01 equipment to drilling in Northern Persia as
exist a in a ^ei^hb lth - a ' Dett ® 1 * chance ot commercial production
ncl Sl*ounng parts of the U.S.S.R. Some borings
Joubni 10 ^! 0 ? " at ShQhi » Bandar Shah, Kurd Kuhi and
Joubai. a Soviet survey of the Kura valley, in the
northernmost part of Iran North East of Tabriz revealed
several promising structures. ' a
fr^ir-wP^S 13 ® 1 ’ ^however, th e Majlis passed a Bill
forbicding the grant 01 oil concessions to foreigners
settin^ r uS r +h h q 21 - + n< T declaring that the agreement
« he + S 2u'?' ot I ? anlan oil Company null and void.
from the n s 2 t p thls :, volt ° fa ? e was extreme and a Note
6 U ’ S,C 3 r E * ambassador m November called the action
nostile and a treacherous violation of its undertakings.
No lurther action has however been taken by the Soviet
from°this e field ? re - st , il:L at the Present totally excluded
> n , • J ' heil ' deBX re to obtain-a concession is
+ h° b A?vn JPH® diminished. but while the difficulties in
the Bcku fields continue, (cf. paragraph 122), they would
prefer to concentrate attention on domestic production.
(D Iranian State Co-operation .
T i le . A ?t passed by the Majlis on 22nd October 1947 cancelling:
the Soviet Iranian Oil Company Agreement stated that "the g
grant of any kind of concession to. foreigners for the
extraction of the oil of the country and "its by-products and
the creation of any kind of company for this purpose in which
x oreigners are in any manner shareholders is absolutely
oil exploitation must, in consequence
of this clause, be carried out by Iranians and the Act laid
it down that "the Government shall make arrangements for a
technical and scientific survey with a. view to the discovery
of oil deposits and shall within a period of five years
complete technical and scientific maps of the oil-bearing
areas so that the Majlis shall be able ..„ to make arrangements
for commercial exploitation". s nLS

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The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).

The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.

The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.

In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.

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1 file (468 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received and sent by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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