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'File 6/28 III Saudi Arabia-Muscat Boundary' [‎3r] (5/36)

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The record is made up of 1 file (16 folios). It was created in 4 Jan 1950-6 Sep 1950. 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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PERSONAL & CONFIDENTIAL.
BAHRAIN.
(33/116/500)
2nd August, 1950.
/
fiank you for your personal and confidential letter
7/6/28/50 of the 23rd July regarding the Sultan and his fron
tiers with Saudi Arabia.
2 . I enclose for your information a copy of the telegram
giving the text of the note referred to in my letter 33/91/50G
of the 5 th July. This was presented by Trott to King Ibn
Saud between the 24th and 26th July.
3. Perhaps I should have sent you a copy of the telegram
giving the text of the whole note when I wrote to you before
as I now see that you think the Sultan should be informed
before there is any question of submitting the case to arbi
tration or to a fact-finding commission. It is not, of course,
possible to do that now, but in any case the Foreign Office
instructions did not authorise doing it and I do not think
they would have done so.
4 . I am afraid I have hardly the time to make the resume
of the case since 1937 which you suggest should be handed to
the Sultan, but unless you see any objection, I think he should
be either shown the whole of the note (as telegraphed) which
was handed to the Saudis or perhaps it would be better to
inform him of the main points. As seen by me, these would
presumably be
(a) H.M.G's view of the situation in International Law,
(b) the answer to the “tribal argument”,
(c) Buraimi,
(d) H.M.G. representing the Sultan,
(e) H.M.G's agreement to adjoint technical commission“
and the conditions of that agreement, and
(f) the reference to the “independent arbitral body".
5. Some of these points you, of course, have made already
as reported in your letter 12/6/28/49 of the 24th November,
1949 to Sir Rupert Hay.
6 . I would now like to do my best to suggest replies to
the points made by the Sultan as described in para 5 of your
letter.
(a) The position has changed from 1937. At that time,
as the Sultan very well knows, oil development in the Arabian
peninsula was only just beginning and there was no necessity
to define the frontiers between Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate.
(b) The Saudi Government make no "unsupported state
ment of their claims" - in respect of the Sultanate of Muscat
in any case. They merely make a statement of fact (or rather
what I am very much afraid we are going to find out to be a
fact), i.e. that the territory to the south and east of the
/position
Major F.C.L. Chauncy
British Consul,
Muscat.
/i'A^

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This file contains correspondence between officials at the British Consulate in Muscat, 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. in Bahrain and the Foreign Office regarding the delineation of the border between Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman.

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1 file (16 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 18; 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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