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Coll 17/30(2) 'Proposed additional outlet to the sea in or near Kuwait territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.' [51v] (102/289)
The record is made up of 1 file (141 folios). It was created in 9 Sep 1942-21 Apr 1945. It was written in English. 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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fundamental importance in connection with the Foreign Office
proposals, With regard to the first of these points it is
of course necessary that, before the frontier is demarcated
on the spot,all parties should be agreed upon a general
paper definition of the boundary line. To this end H.M.
Ambassador at Bagdad evolved in 1940 a formula which was
(unfortunately from the point of view of Koweit and those
concerned with protecting her interests) accepted by the
^litical authorities, the Government of India and the Foreign
and India Offices, as well as by the Sheikhj but the Iraqi
Government, while making no comnent on the formula, suggested
that the whole question of demarcation should be postponed.
Para. 4(a) of the draft is intended to suggest that it might
conceivably be practicable to evolve a new formula — in
supersession of that advanced in 1940 - which would be
acceptable to all parties. It might be worth while attempting
this, if thereby we could avoid all the trouble, publicity
and possibilities of bad feeling involved in staging sin
international arbitation. But a necessary preliminary
would be that 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.
and Foreign Office should
resolve their domestic diffCfcfcfcCies with regard to the^.
alignment of the frontier; and for this purpose it be
necessary to make a reference to the Law Officers of the
Grown* This would involve much labour which might turn I
out to be fruitless if the resultant formula were not
accepted by the Iraqi Government.
Il
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The file contains papers mainly relating to the port at Um Qasr (Umm Qasr). These papers mostly concern a notification of the schedule of dues and charges to be imposed by the Government of Iraq on vessels navigating to Um Qasr port (printed in the Iraq Government Gazette No. 24 of 14 June 1942); specifically, the response HM Ambassador to Iraq should make to the notification, with regards to the rights of the Sheikh [Shaikh] of Koweit [Kuwait], and the wider question of the disputed frontier between Iraq and Koweit.
The file also includes some correspondence relating to HM Government’s decision to dismantle the port installations at Um Qasr in 1945.
The papers in the file mainly consist of correspondence, 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. internal notes, 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, and copies of minutes of an interdepartmental meeting of representatives of 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. , the Military Sub-Committee, the Admiralty, the War Office, the Foreign Office, and the Port Director at Basra, of 27 August 1943, to discuss Um Qasr.
The main correspondents are the following: 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. , the Foreign Office, the External Affairs Department of the Government of India, 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. , and HM Ambassador, Baghdad (Sir Kinahan Cornwallis). Other correspondents include the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Kuwait, and the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Persia and Iraq Command.
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- 1 file (141 folios)
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The papers are arranged in 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 outside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 144; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-144; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- Title
- Coll 17/30(2) 'Proposed additional outlet to the sea in or near Kuwait territory. Development of port at Um Qasr.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:138v, 140r:140v, 142r:144v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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