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Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’ [51r] (101/275)
The record is made up of 1 file (135 folios). It was created in 9 Feb 1935-17 Oct 1939. 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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in view of the approach of the hot weather t w> rk will
shortly be suspended u^til the end of September.
The Gover or of India arranged for an escort of
twenty nen under lUsaldar Faqir iTuhanmad of the Chagai
Levy Corps to aocompariy the Iranian party arid to be
responsible for its security in British territory. It
was also arranged that Captain G.A. Cole,
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.
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Chagai,should meet the Iranian party at Govanl*
Instruct ions were issued by the Government of India that
the Iranian party should be allowed to penetrate as far
into India ns might be Necessary to enable them to carry
or
out their survey of obtain the necessities of life,
provided reciprocal treatment was accorded to the British
escort party.
5. This stipulation for reciprocal permission to
enter Iranian territory as given rice to considerable
discussion with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran,
who had assumed that the British party would not cross the
frontier. The Head of the Third Political Department
argued that a distl ction should be drawn between the 1932
survey,when thtrsides sent survey parties,and the present
one,when there is only one survey party,sent by the Iran
ian Government. The British party was only required as an
escort in British territory,^ d therefore need not cross
the frontier. Similarly the Iranian escort would remain
in Iranian territory,and only the actual survey party
would cross the frontier,as their work retired. Repeated
efforts have been mad ^ to convince Monsieur zanjani that,
given the nature of the frontier region t it is essential
that both parties should be able to cross the frontier
freely. Some impression seems at last to have been made
on him,but he has asked that the reasons for the
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Correspondence and other papers concerning the Persian [Iranian] Government’s renewed desire in 1937 to finalise a treaty of friendship between Britain and Iran (also referred to in the file as the Anglo-Persian Consular Convention). The papers, chiefly exchanged between HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Horace James Seymour, the Foreign Office, and the 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. , cover: outstanding points remaining to be agreed prior to the signing of any treaty, including the withdrawal of Iran’s claims to Bahrain, Tamb [Greater Tunb] and Abu Musa, and the demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, between Iran and British Baluchistan, now part of Pakistan; the British Government and Government of India’s reluctance to commit to a demarcation of the Perso-Baluch frontier, in part because of the financial implications of such a project; the despatch of an Iranian technical commission between February and May 1938 to recommence a survey of the Perso-Baluch frontier that was originally started in 1932; arrangements for the Government of India’s cooperation with the Iranian survey party, with the support of 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. at Chagai; reports on the Iranian survey party’s activity and progress; a confidential entitled ‘Status of the Islands of Tamb, Little Tamb, Abu Musa and Sirri’ written by John Gilbert Laithwaite of the 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. , and dated 24 August 1928 (ff 45-48); the return of the Iranian survey party to the frontier in late 1938.
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 (135 folios)
- Arrangement
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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 137; 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.
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- Title
- Coll 28/99 ‘Persia. Anglo-Persian Relations. Treaty negotiations, 1937– (Perso-Baluch Frontier Demarcation)’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 5r:9v, 11r:137v, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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