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'14/6 Vol I OFF SHORE OIL' [44r] (87/116)
The record is made up of 1 file (56 folios). It was created in 10 Nov 1948-17 Sep 1949. 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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IMMEDIATE. SECRET.
Addressed Bahrain telno 151 of March 24th repeated for
information to Tehran Baghdad Washington Jedda BMEO and Kuwait.
Your telno 125 not repeated, Off shore oil.
Unless you see objection the following action should be taken.
(1) Kuwait Bahrain and Qatar to be ( ,, told n ommitted”) confiden
tially now that the Saudis are expected to act shortly that the
Govt, wil] be advised when to issue their proclamations. This
should be three days after the issue of the Saudi proclamation.
I am separately instructing HM Ambassador Baghdad to speak to
the Iraqis as soon as the Ambassador Jedda has firm information
of the date on which the Saudis will act. Should the Ambassa
dor Jedda fail to obtain the information the timing of the
approach to the Iraqis might have to be reviewed.
(2) You may now speak to Bahrain Petroleum Co. (mytel 107)
(3) Sultan of Muscat may be informed generally of developments
when you see him at Dhofar.
(4) Other Gulf states to be informed confidentially after the
Saudis have issued their proclamation and told that they will
be advised later when to issue their proclamations. I would
welcome your suggestions for a staggered programme.
2. The proclamations will not be in the form you suggest
which applied to the Median line scheme now in suspense. You
will have seen from mytel 150 to Jedda and from para 1 of mytel
3078 to Washington that Ambassador Jedda is expected to telegraph
the text of the Saudi proclamation some days before it is issued.
A proclamation has also been prepared here and will be telegra
phed to you at the end of the week. It may require some modi
fication in the light of the Saudi text. If all goes well you
should be able to give the three rulers a text at the latest
on the day the Saudis issue their proclamation. This should
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The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to offshore oil and the definition of territorial waters in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues:
- A Saudi proclamation regarding seabed and subsoil rights and decree defining territorial waters
- A Persian Government draft Bill on seabed rights (folio 27)
- A draft declaration (folio 38) of the Muscat government and other Arab coast rulers.
Further discussion (ff 31-33) surrounds the concern of the Governments of the United Kingdom and the United States to establish agreed jurisdiction to allow seabed drilling by oil companies on an agreed basis and prevent claims by other powers.
Also discussed (ff 56-57) is the visit by Bertram Thomas to the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. in November 1948 as a representative of an oil company.
Included (ff 9-22) in the file are copies of the 'Royal Pronouncement concerning the policy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with respect to the subsoil and sea Bed areas in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. contiguous to the coasts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia'.
The file features the following principal correspondents: 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. (William Rupert Hay); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, London (Ernest Bevin); an official of the Foreign Office (Sir Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows) the 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. , Muscat (Randall Erskine Ellison); HM Ambassador to Iran (Sir John Helier Le Rougetel).
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- 1 file (56 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 58; 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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- IOR/R/15/6/442
- Title
- '14/6 Vol I OFF SHORE OIL'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:8v, 23r:26v, 28r:35v, 37r:57v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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