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Coll 30/86(3) 'PERSIA. Relations with Iraq: Shatt-el-Arab. Establishment of an International Conservancy Board.' [222r] (458/674)
The record is made up of 1 file, in 2 parts (329 folios). It was created in 14 Apr 1937-5 Mar 1946. 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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(E 5440/73/34)
SH^z:EL~MAB CONS ERVANCY and NAVIGATION
3ir John Ward called to see me on September 10th and
I took the opportunity of telling him that since he and i
nad discussed the future conservancy of the Shatt-el-Arab
early in August we had come to the conclusion that it was
little use our considering what kind of a Conservancy or
Navigation Convention we should like to see concluded until
we had first cleared up the all-important question of whether
His majesty's Government were to be a party to that Convention.
If His Majesty s Government wished to participate
in the conservancy and navigation of the Shatt-el-Arab, the
achievement of their aim was clearly their own business and
no one else's, and I was not for a moment suggesting that he
should fight our battles for us. But our first move in
securing our aim must be to bring the Iraq_i Government into
the open over the question of British participation and I
thought that without going outside his functions as an Iraqi
employee he could help us in this to the following extent;
he could go to the Iraqi Government and say that if they wished
him to draw up the first draft of a Conservancy and Navigation
Convention, it was necessary that he should know before he
began whether the Convention was to be between Iraq andPersia
alone, or between Iraq, Persia and His majesty's Government,
since a different kind of Convention would be needed in each
case* This was obviously one of the most essential
preliminary questions and he could reasonably take the line
that he could not produce a draft at all unless he knew who
was to participate.
3. If the Iraqi Government replied that the draft should
be tripartite, the first step forward would have been taken
and/
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The file concerns the possibility of establishing an international Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab (also referred to as the Shatt-al-Arab) between the governments of Iraq, Iran (also referred to as Persia), and the United Kingdom.
The board was intended to ensure the efficient maintenance and navigation of the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. The United Kingdom was involved because of the close interests of British shipping in the conservancy of the Shatt-al-Arab.
The papers cover: Perso-Iraqi frontier negotiations; drafts, signing (July 1937), and ratification (June 1938) of the Perso-Iraqi Frontier Treaty; Turkish approval of the frontier negotiations; the signing of the four power non-aggression pact between Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan (the Saad-Abad [Saadabad] Pact), 1937; Abadan anchorage; Foreign Office memoranda and minutes of meetings concerning a convention for the conservancy of the Shatt-al-Arab; the question of British participation in the convention; lighting and buoying; the involvement of Sir John Ward [serving with the Iraqi Government] in the discussions; the opposition of the Iranian Government to British involvement; the involvement of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC); the Port of Basra (including Foreign Office memorandum, folios 77-83); the Rooka Channel; and renewed discussion of the issue in 1945, including the importance of the Shatt-al-Arab for tanker traffic to supply Britain's war needs in the Far East.
The main correspondents are the Foreign Office, the British Ambassador to Iraq, and HM Minister, Tehran.
The French language content of the file consists of approximately twenty folios of diplomatic correspondence and treaties.
There are no papers in the file dated 1941-44.
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, in 2 parts (329 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: this file consists of two physical parts. The foliation sequence commences at the first folio of part one (ff 1-169) and terminates at the last folio of part two (ff 170-329); 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; these numbers are printed, but are not circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out. The front and back conservation covers (parts one and two), have not been foliated.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 1r:40v, 51r:106v, 107v:130v, 131v:134v, 137r:169v, back-i, front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 170r:174v, 175v:224v, 225v:226v, 230r:275v, 284r:284v, 287v:302v, 306r:306v, 307v:323v, 328r:329v, back-i
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