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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.' [‎103r] (205/289)

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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FOREIGN OFFICE, 8 .W.I.
24th Decemher, 1942.
You will already have seen a copy of Bagdad telegram
Vovp fi No. 1262 of the 18th Decemb er. to the Foreign Office
about Um cfesr.
The conversation with Nuri reported in Bagdad
telegram No. 55 7 of the 4t h April, (our reference number
E '2119/134/93 of the 5th April T) is not the only occasion
on which the Ambassador has raised the question of Urn Qasr
with the Iraqis. He told us in his telegram No. 85B of
the 1st August, 1941 (our reference E 4360/26B7/ l 93 of the
5th August, 1941) that he had spoken to the then Minister
for Foreign Affairs on the lines which it had been agreed
should be used both with the Iraqi Government and the
Sheikh of Koweit,*and he reported that Ali Jaudat seemed
to think that the Iraqi Government would welcome the step.
IHowever, as nothing has been put to the Iraqi Government
I so far in writing, we agree that the wording of paragraph
2 of the draft note in our telegr a m No. 1127 of the 10th
December, to Bagdad will have to be slightly modified, if
indeed a written communication is to be put in at all.
The re-draft proposed by Cornwallis seems all right to us.
It brings out what we take to be the essential point,
that the Sheikh is concerned in the Port area as well as
the Iraqi Government.
We do not altogether understand paragraph 2 of
Cornwallis’s telegram. It is clear that he wants us to
omit paragraph 2 of the draft note, leaving it to him to
arrange/
R.T. Peel, Esq., C.B.E., M.C.,
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. .

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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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