Coll 30/21(3) 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait-Saudi Relations: Blockade by Ibn Saud. Smuggling: Bon Voisinage and Extradition Agreements' [86r] (176/1033)
The record is made up of 1 file (512 folios). It was created in 4 Oct 1937-3 Apr 1940. 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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Article 8c
(1) All decisions taken in mutual agreement
by the frontier officers specified in Article 3 in
regard to questions arising on the frontier between
the tribes shall be recorded in writing and signed
by both officers at the time of agreement and shall
forthwith become operative and executory.
(2) Those matters, however, upon which the
frontier officers are unable to reach an agreement
shall be referred to the two Governments for
settlement by agreement.
Arabia or Kuwait, which habitually frequent both
sides of the frontier for the nurpose of grazing for
musabala”} shall be free to move from place to
place in the two territories, unless one of the two
Governments finds it necessary to restrict the freedom
of its own nationals to move into the territory of
the other, or to restrict the freedom of the nationals
of the other Government to me e across into its
Article 9.
(l) The tribes, nationals of either Saudi
territory/
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This file contains correspondence between British officials concerning a number of proposed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait that were intended to formalise relations between the two countries and to end a trade blockade that had been imposed on Kuwait by Saudi Arabia. Much of the correspondence concerns the exact wording of these agreements and numerous amendments that were made to them.
The majority of the correspondence in the file is between British officials (including at the Foreign Office, 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 British Legation in Jeddah and the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait), but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence with Saudi Arabia's Minister in London, Shaikh Hafiz Wahba, and the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, on whose behalf the British acted during the negotiations with Saudi Arabia that led to the agreements.
In addition to correspondence, the file contains several drafts of the proposed agreements between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, including a trade agreement, an agreement of 'Friendship and Bon Voisinage An agreement or treaty based on principles of 'good neighbourliness', often signed between countries which share borders. ' and an agreement for the extradition of offenders. On folios 316-346, the file contains bilingual (English and Arabic) drafts of these agreements.
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 (512 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 514; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 30/21(3) 'Persian Gulf: Kuwait-Saudi Relations: Blockade by Ibn Saud. Smuggling: Bon Voisinage and Extradition Agreements'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:15v, 18r:20v, 22r:24v, 26r:207v, 212r:301v, 304r:514v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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