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Coll 30/86(2) 'Persia. Relations with Iraq. Shatt-el-Arab: Internationalisation of, and establishment of a Conservancy Board.' [385r] (780/944)
The record is made up of 1 volume (468 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1935-22 Apr 1937. It was written in English and French. 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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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY
i sG'U ¥ E K W M
Printed for the Foreign Office. January 1936.
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59 7
( 1936
CONFIDENTIAL.
jE 7547/112/34]
Mr. Eden to Sir A. Clark Kerr {Bagdad).
(No. 29.) Foreign Office, January 15, 1936.
ir ’ IN view of the fact that your Excellency may be called upon to take part
with representatives of the Iraqi and Persian Governments in the negotiation
of a convention setting up a Conservancy Board for the Shatt-el-Arab, I have
paused a Memorandum of Instructions to be prepared for your guidance and
assistance ^ setting forth the principles which His Majesty’s Government would
wish to see embodied in any such convention. A copy of this memorandum is
enclosed herein The latest revised text of the draft convention (known as the
draft of “the 17th December, 1935”). to which the memorandum refers was
sent to you under cover of my predecessor s despatch No. J|32_of the
19 th December,_1935. ^ Ma j esty ’ s Government intend, if and when you report
that there is a reasonable prospect of the negotiations beginning m the near
future to send to Bagdad Mr. E. A. Seal of the Admiralty to assist you m the
negotiations. As you have been informed m my predecessor s telegram No. 280
of "the 6th December, Mr. Seal is thoroughly conversant with the draft Conse-
vaocv Board Convention and other Shatt-el-Arab questions, and wil!, I feel si e
be able to give you valuable help and advice m connexion with the vanous
^o'^CmNoX'send you under cover of a separate despatch the necessary
full nowere to enable you to sign, on behalf of the United Ktngdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, any convention winch mayeventuaHy be conclude .
ANTHONY EDEN.
Enclosure.
Memorandum of Instructions for the Gu f,^ n p °J Jf CsLtf-d-^rab
Representatives in the NegotmHons for Conclusion of
Conservancy Board Convention. ' .
THE views of His Majesty’s ^“^att^l-Amb Soul J take' aN'eX'died
establishing a Conservancy Board for t j d artmenta i discussions
n the draft “‘"I, tbh draft P ls k n as the draft
result of intey-departmental discussion m , t j ie « draft of August 1935 ”)
be noted that this text differs , '‘persian Governments. The differences,
S'irZhirof a minh ehl-cter, have formed the subject of separate
Majesty’s Government wo^ glad if th.late, te^t.uld be
adopted without modification, but th \ rpp-arded as a basis for discussion
.... ■
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The file concerns negotiations over a convention to establish a 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 convention had two main objects: (1) to provide for the conservancy of the Shatt-al-Arab (i.e. its maintenance as a navigable waterway adequate to the needs of international shipping); (2) to control the navigation of the Shatt-al-Arab (i.e. to provide all shipping using the waterway with a uniform system of control, administration, and discipline in all matters necessary for safe and efficient shipping). The board was to consist of Iraq and Iran as the two riparian countries concerned, and the United Kingdom as the state owning over 90 per cent of the shipping using the river.
The papers cover: Perso-Iraqi negotiations; the question of British participation in the convention; the views of the Shah of Iran; negotiations over the frontier between Iraq and Iran; dredging dues; the navigation of the river; Persian violations of Iraqi territory; the anchorage at Abadan; draft agreements on the frontier between Iraq and Iran; the Persian refusal to allow Iraq any say over the waters (the Karun) that flowed into the Shatt-al-Arab (e.g. folios 262-264); the interests of the Government of Turkey in the issue; the view of the Foreign Office that a single authority was required in order to achieve unified control over the whole waterway system (folios 245-246); quarantine and police posts; and the Port of Basra (budget estimates, and dues and charges).
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 ten folios of diplomatic correspondence and treaty drafts.
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 volume (468 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: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 464; 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 front and back covers, along with the two leading and two ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 291-464 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1r:9v, 16r:16v, 23r:68v, 69v:74r, 75r:76v, 77v:78v, 87r:181v, 187r:196v, 199r:199v, 201r:217v, 218v:292v, 299v:311v, 315r:323v, 333r:464v, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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