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Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [39r] (88/1010)
The record is made up of 1 volume (502 folios). It was created in 21 Feb 1935-15 Jan 1936. 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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1935 J
■II IMI —T
NO DI 3 TRIEUTION
Cypher telegram to Sir A. Clark Kerr, (Bagdad),
Foreign Office, 25th November, 1955, 5.00 p.m.
No.268.
-o -o -o ~o ~o ~o -o ~o “
Your telegram No.269 (of November 20th - Shatt-el~Arab
Conservancy Board Convention).
Nuri Pasha’s statement in. final paragraph suggests that
situation may not be so unsatisfactory as appeared, though it
hardly tallies with earlier suggestion that Conservancy Convention
was to be main object of impending negotiations. Provided Iraqi
Government are determined not to proceed with discussion of
Conservancy Board Convention unless Persian Government agree to
British participation in its negotiation and conclusion, basis
of our position is secure. On the other hand it seems futile
at this stage to reopen negotiations oh Treaty of friendship and
frontier question so long as no prior agreement in regard to
Conservancy Convention has been reached.
2. But while His Majesty's Government do not ask more of
Iraqi Government, they d© not expect less. I consider Iraqi
Government are right, as power in possession of ohatt-el Arab,
to offer Conservancy Convention to Persian Government, not only
because establishment of Board, i.e. of unified control over //hole
Shatt system, including Persian waters, is becoming increasingly
necessary to Iraq if Shatt is to remain open at all, but al^o
means of relegating purely juridical aspect of-frontier dispute
to background. It is equally in Iraq’s interest that Convention
should be tripartite, with Iraq’s ally as third signatoiy. His
Majesty’s Government have strong claim, both on strategic grounds
as Iraq’s ally and as owners of over 90f of shipping lively to he
affected, to he consulted from the outset and to participate m
negotiation
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This volume is a continuation of Collection 17/5, and contains papers regarding negotiations between Persia [Iran] and Iraq at the League of Nations in 1935, mediated by Italian delegate Baron Pompeo Aloisi. The papers primarily consist of communications regarding the negotiations submitted to the Foreign Office by HM Ambassadors at Rome, Teheran and Baghdad, as well as comments by 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 Admiralty, and representatives of the Governments of Persia, Iraq, and Italy.
The negotiations concerned the frontier line along the Shatt el-Arab, the possibility of granting a Persian anchorage at Abadan [Ābādān], the rights of Persian and British warships to traverse and refuel on the river, and the proposed establishment of a Conservancy Board. Following negotiations in Geneva, Rome and Tehran, the Persian and Iraqi Governments had practically agreed on three instruments: a pact of non-aggression, to be signed by Iraq, Persia and Turkey; a treaty for the peaceful settlement of international disputes between Persia and Iraq; and a treaty of friendship, which would settle the frontier question and establish the Conservancy Board.
In addition to the correspondence, the volume contains: documents circulated by the Council of the League of Nations; Reports on the Sessions of the Council submitted to the Foreign Office by C J Edmonds, Second Adviser to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs; multiple drafts of the treaty of friendship and non-aggression treaties; and copies of notes exchanged by the Iraqi and Persian Ministers at the League of Nations. A number of these documents are written in French.
The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).
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- 1 volume (502 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 498; 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 1-498; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:1v, 3r:3v, 10r:17v, 24r:62v, 96r:105v, 107r:124v, 130r:200v, 204r:304v, 311r:327r, 331r:415v, 420r:442v, 447r:449v, 452r:452v, 454r:463r, 466r:469v, 471r:498v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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