Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [416v] (843/1010)
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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frontier as delimited by the Delimitation Commission of 1914 in enforcem
of the above-mentioned treaties and agreements, and assures your Excellen
that any proposals you may kindly make will receive the most careful and
conciliatory attention of the Government. a
With highest personal regards, &c.
Enclosure 2 in No. 1 .
Porta to Naji Beg.
(Private and Confidential.) Regia Legazione d’Italia in Iraq,
My dear Naji Beg, April 2 , 1935.
I ENCLOSE herewith the French translation of a telegram received this
morning from Baron Aloisi.
Would you be so kind as to show it, in a private and confidential way to
his Excellency the
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
, and, if you think it right, arrange with him for an
interview with me, perhaps, to-morrow so that I would cable his remarks on the
telegram ?
I should very much like to help to clear whatever misunderstanding may
have arisen in the whole question. I may add that I wrote privately by the last
air mail, explaining facts and circumstances.
Believe me, &c.
M. PORTA.
MUZAHIM-AL-PACHACHi,
Minister for Iraq.
sf
Enclosure.
Mouzahem Bey vient de me faire une communication dont les termes sont
a peu pres les memes que ceux de votre telegramme regu le 26 courant.
Je ne peux evidemment pas juger les raisons qui ont pousse son Excellence
Xouri Pacha a s’eloigner de Rome et a prolonger sa permanence a Bagdad. Je
dois seulement observer que la simple transmission de telegrammes et de mes
eventuelles propositions ne constituera pas cette base de Tample et directe
discussion des parties avec le relateur, la seule qui peut offrir a ce dernier la
possibilite de peser en contradictoire les raisons des particuliers et referer an
Conseil de la Societe des Nations avec pleine conscience de cause.
Les conversations qui ont ete inte.rrompues a cause du depart de son
Excellence Nouri Pacha de Rome—avec Tassurance de son retour a un mois de
distance—ne pourraient pas done etre reprises que par la presence de son
Excellence Nouri Pacha ou de [ ? quelque] personne de sa confiance ayant les
pouvoirs et la qualification de discuter a fond la question, et non seulement ceux
d’ecouter et d'informer son Gouvernement. —Aloisi.
Enclosure 3 in No. 1 .
Nuri
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to M. Porta.
Dear Signor Porta, April 3, 1935.
WITH reference to our conversation of to-day, it may be of assistance if I
put briefly on paper the gist of what I tried to convey to you.
I am somewhat puzzled by the tone of the messages being received from
Rome, which seem to indicate a feeling on the part of the rapporteur that the
Iraqi side is to blame for the lack of progress towards settling the Iraqi -Iranian
boundary question. I think we can confidently claim that the contrary is the
fact. It is we who are anxious to see an end put to Iranian aggression and
appealed to the League for this purpose; we have put all our cards on the table,
we have pressed for expeditious treatment of the dispute and intimated officially
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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)
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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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- 21v:22v, 308r, 309v:310r, 329r:329v, 416r:418r, 419r:419v, 445r:446v, 464r:465v, 470r:470v
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