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‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’ [‎137r] (282/504)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (248 folios). It was created in 22 Nov 1938-16 Oct 1939. 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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4. It will be remembered that the Saudi Government
asked, when the negotiations began, that His Majesty's
Government should guarantee the execution of the Trade
Agreement. It is now clear that they expected the pro
cedure to be that followed in the case of the Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders.
Agreement with Trans-Jordan, where His Majesty's Government
did n0t sign the ' j reat y» tmt letters were annexed in which
it was made clear that His Majesty's Government accepted
responsibility for the fulfilment of the provisions of the
Treaty by the Amir of Trans-Jordan. On finding that the
agreements with Kuwait would be signed by His Majesty's
Government, the Saudi Government suggested the deletion of
the main portion of Article 1 (2) of the draft Bon Voisin
age Agreement as superfluous. To this deletion there will,
I suppose, be no objection on the part of His Majesty's
Government or of His Highness the Shaikh, but there is a
connected point on which I am doubtful. The Saudi Govern
ment suggest that in the phrase in the preambles "acting
in_cheir_p wn name and on behalf of His Highness the Shaikh
of Kuwait", the words here underlined are superfluous as
expressing a guarantee which they new consider implied by
the fact that the agreements will be signed by a repres-
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entative of His Majesty’s Government; Hut I am not sure
whether their assumption is correct, or whether the words
are not essential in view of the responsibility of His
Majesty’s Government for the foreign affairs of Kuwait.
5-. The Saudi Government propose that the agreements
shall he drawn up in Arabic only. They quote as precedents
the Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. agreements with Iraq and Trans-Jordan,
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Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations finalising trade, Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. and extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the of King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The volume is a direct chronological continuation of ‘1/1 Volume V Koweit Saudi Relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/113), and includes:

The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Kuwait 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. (Captain Gerald Simpson DeGaury; Major Arnold Crawshaw Galloway); 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. (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle); the British Government’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Reader William Bullard); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ); 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. representatives in London (Roland Tennyson Peel; John Percival Gibson); Foreign Office representatives in London (Lacy Baggallay); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax).

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1 volume (248 folios)
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The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 246; 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 first and last leading and ending flyleaves.

An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-243; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

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English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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