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‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’ [‎145r] (298/504)

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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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XLiIlclOSUPS No • 3 in Js cLcIq Hpo-rin'hoVi >1
despatch No. 51 dated March 19th
1939.
Notes
on th^ draft Extradition Agreement (March
8 th. 1939)
(1) The question of political c r i m es (Article 3 ) has glven
m ch trouble. The Saudi Government say that nothing should
he left to the courts, since Sharia lawyers have as many
opinions as there are individuals as to what constitutes a
political offence. At first they wished to include all
offences "against the government authorities" among the
non-extradit able offences, but in the end they replaced this
phrase by the words against the local authorities" which
they had found in Article 6 of the extradition treaty between
Iraq and Egypt (a copy of this article is attached to this
note) . They claim that in this matter Iraq had granted
hotter terms to Egypt than to Saudi Arabia, and Shaikh Yusuf
Yasin went 4o far as to allege that Iraq had refused to
widen the scope of the term "political offence" in the
extradition treaty of 1930 with the deliberate intention of
sheltering as many criminals from Saudi Arabia as possible.
Ibn Saud appears to be determined that Kuwait shall not be
used in this ¥/ay. But the words "local authorities" are
rather vague. Shaikh Yusuf gives as examples resistance to
the police or the frontier guards<
Smuggling is included in the list of offences, in Article
for which extradition shall be granted, but it is explained
in the draft letters attached that this only applies to the
case where a suspected smuggler who is not a Kuwaiti escapes
from Saudi Arabia into Kuwait territory.

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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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