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Coll 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’ [104r] (207/313)
The record is made up of 1 file (154 folios). It was created in 14 Aug 1935-16 Apr 1936. 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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tariff ms essential. From this the conclusion
emerged that until an agreement had been reached
it would be necessary to limit traffic on the
Indian side of the frontier to Indians, and on
the Iranian side of the frontier to Iranians.
Mr. Loxley suggested that he should examine details
when he went through Zahidan on his return to
Iran, and we left it at that.
5. I then raised the question of
failure to pay compensation for Indian lorry
drivers killed and wounded in Mekran, and told
M. Motamedy frankly that we took a very
serious view of this case. In response to a
question whether there was any chance of getting
any satisfaction, he informed me that he thought
that there was.
6 . From this we passed to the treatment of
Indian subjects generally in Eastern Iran. Mr.
Loxley explained the vexatious customs searches to
which pilgrims to Meshed were subjected. I said
that we had always to remember that our good
relations might be seriously disturbed if complaints
of this kind were to get into the Indian press.
I doubt, however, whether M. Motac^edy took this
argument very seriously.
7. We then proceeded to discuss the
consular position in Zabul. I said that the
Iranian objections to a consular and medical
charge being combined in one person could not
easily be refuted, and the Governnent of India,
admitting the justice of the Iranian contention,
intended to separate the two functions and
appoint a separate Vice Consul at Zabul. There
were, however, naturally financial difficulties
involved in the creation of a new post, and I
said we should be grateful if this 'Governnent
would agree to the present system continuing for
a short time while these were being examined. He
did not demur, and asked for how long, in answer
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Correspondence, memoranda and newspaper cuttings relating to an official visit made by the Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Bagher Kazemi, to Kabul, Afghanistan, and New Delhi, India. The file’s principal correspondents include: HM Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen; the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India. Aside from general commercial matters, specific subjects discussed by Kazemi and Government of India officials, as recorded in memoranda and notes in the file, include: the Duzdap [Zahedan] railway; the status of the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. at Bushire, Iran, and questions over its transfer to Bahrain; the demarcation of the Iran-Baluchistan frontier; the employment of officers of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India at consular posts in Iran; lorry traffic on the Nok Kundi to Zahidan [Zahedan] road. The file also contains a sequence of newspaper articles dated 2-27 February 1936, appearing in the French-language newspaper Le Journal de Teheran , and reporting at length on Kazemi’s visit (ff 6-28).
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- 1 file (154 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 (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 155; 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 28/90 ‘Persia. Visit of the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs to Afghanistan and India.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:5v, 29r:53v, 57r:58v, 61r:118r, 118ar, 118v:119v, 121r:143r, 143ar, 143v:155v, back
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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