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Coll 30/119 'Qatar: Protest by Ibn Saud against the grant of the Qatar Oil Concession. Direct correspondence between the Sheikh of Qatar & Ibn Saud.' [‎14r] (27/191)

The record is made up of 1 file (94 folios). It was created in 21 Aug 1935-18 Feb 1936. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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with the ^rab kulere in the . tfraian Cruir derive not only rrom
the terms of .^rticlo VI but oloo tro>.\ the existeaoe oi‘ the
treaties uotween those kulers and Kin iovej*njnont f
ivhlch V/Ore eosAittUnicatsd to the King at his own request in
19^7 at the time of the conclusion of the Treaty of tied da*
You will recollect that you made this ^oint in your letter
of 2uth 3cote?aher to Gheilch Yusuf Yaein; the latter, however,
whether dcliherotely or owi.ig to a misunaerstnad infj took the
line in his reply of the IGth October that His I'iJesty^B
Government were basing their* argument solely on the Treaty
•of veddao It will, therefore, bo convenient to consider
in the iirat place the obligations which devolve on King ibn
Gaud quite apart from the eUstenoe of Article V: e
6 . The existence of special treaties between His Hajeety
Government and the ,o*ab Hul ?rs by which the 1 .tt ?r undertake
not to enter into direct relations v/lth ucy otho 1 foreign
government does not impose my treaty obligation on uaudi
Arabia or any other dtate a>t to fcnter into dire st relafei.ons
with the Jailors, on the ot ier hand, if Saudi .^r ibin, knowing
oi che existence of these treaties (since they hive been
Gfiicially communicated to tor Govemment), wore nevertheless
lo persist in trying to ent-sr into such direct re at ions, her
action would amount to enue ivouring to porsuade ;he .ulcrs
coiicirned to violate their treaty obligations to -ards His
Majesty’s Government• baud:. ,vrauia would therefore be
commit ting an unfriendly nc', towards Hie XTajeoty b Govonruent
and one Ssaeti as vould normally provoke a strong reactiono
7. The question ir:xt ari'es of the chraxge (if any)
introduced by Article VI of the Treaty of Jeuda into the
genera.' position os becerxbod above* It cannot ,>e denied th t

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The file concerns a letter from Ibn Saud (also referred to as Bin Saud) [Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], King of Saudi Arabia, to Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim ath-Thani [‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī], Ruler of Qatar (also spelled Katr), concerning the Qatar oil concession and the Saudi-Qatar frontier. The letter demanded that the Ruler of Qatar should agree to fix the boundary between Qatar and Saudi Arabia; otherwise, Ibn Saud would be 'compelled to protest and to stop operations'. The suggestion of the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. (on folio 86) was that the means of preventing operations would be by fomenting tribal unrest. The papers discuss the British response to the letter, which resulted in a formal protest by His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert). The Foreign Office subsequently decided to close the matter until a settlement of the frontier question could take place.

The papers include the text of Ibn Saud's letter or 'Mulhaq' (in Arabic, with English translation, folios 58-62); and correspondence from the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , the Foreign Office, His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Jedda, and the Government of India; and 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. minutes.

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (94 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 95; 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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