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Coll 17/15(2) 'Relations with Persia: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [486r] (980/1010)
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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PERSO-- IRAQ FRONTIER.
( Note by Lt-Col. A.T. Wilson on point raised on Teheran
telegram No. 261 Dated IOth April, 1919).
.I- \ cou ^ suggest several minor modifications of frontier in favour of
Peisia m ic i could be given without prejudice to the other limitrophe power and
without doing any harm to the general settlement.
^ I think essential that before this is done the proceedings of the
1914 Boundaiy Commission should be ratified: this having been done we could
arrange with Persia for frontier modifications between Persia and the ‘ Iraq State,
on a basis of the desires of the local inhabitants and local considerations of
expediency.
3. The areas where territory might be ceded are
(D
In Pusht-i-Kuh where a line along the foot of the hills might be chosen
instead of along the crest-this is in accordance with Persian claims as put
forward at the Commission and it would look a lot on the map and would
do us no harm.
( 2 )
East of Halabja - where Persian tribes own villages in what was Turkish
territory : a rectification here might be welcomed locally and would do no
great harm. The villages would never pay revenue to the Persians though
they are Persian by race and “patriotic”.
(3)
North of Latitude 36 it is not within our power to suggest modifications nor
are many possible without spoiling the frontier, but there are a few places
where the line was brought down off the watershed in favour of Turkey :
these might now be rectified.
4. In the Mendali-Zohab region the existence of oil makes it impossible to
suggest or consent to rectifications.
Sd/- A.T. Wilson,
Offg. Civil Commissioner,
16-4-1919.
Extract from Foreign Office despatch No. E. 6191/6191/65
dated 22nd September, 1924, to the Colonial Office.
2 It will be remembered that in 1913 Hakki
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was sent to London by
the Turkish Government to initiate and carry on otl ^“ ? Afi
fL™ mGAvn-nf. nmAstions then at issue between His Majesty s Crovernment a
the Turkish Government to inmate ana carry utt —— yy Government and
SVftVkbounto,, „a th.
convention regarding the Aden boundary, were ratihed.
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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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- 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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