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Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [436r] (882/1010)
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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1
tegan Dy concentratii^ almost entirely on the question of the
Italo-lraqi Treaty of Friendship. Not only is this entirely
irrelevant to the present issue, but it is clear that it could
only confuse and prejudice the position. Even though the
Treaty itself was admittedly quite anodyne and harmless, it
became obvious that the 1talians attached great bargaining
importance to it. blether this was for the ir own purposes
as a means of increasing their prestige in the Middle East
or for the purpose of squeezing the Persians in some other
way is not quite clear, but it is hardly possible not to
suspect them of some ulterior motive.
o. But what has been even worse has been that, apart
from Aloisi 1 s proposal that he should obtain the advice of
three jurists on the legal question involved - a proposal
which Nuri has made no difficulty about accepting, on
obviously reasonable conditions Aloisi has taken up the
Question on lines which really have absolutely nothing to
do with the issue in dispute. He seems to have got right
away from the question of Persian aggression,, about which the
Iraqis went to the League* and from that of the legal
validity of the frontier, which the Persians themselves
raised in their defence, and to be concentrating entirely on
securing for Persia new and extensive rights in what is in
fact Iraqi territory - in fact in getting certain special
advantages and privileges for Persia at the expense of Iraq
in advance of any settlement. He says that Persia is
entitled to her present rights under certain instruments;
but tnose rights have never been disputed, and in any case
the instruments are the very instruments whose validity
Persia is challenging; while the rights in question were
in fact only given to Persia by those instruments as a kind
of compensation for the far more extensive territorial rights
which
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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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- 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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