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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [‎4v] (9/482)

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The record is made up of 1 file (239 folios). It was created in 23 Mar 1933-30 May 1940. It was written in English, French and Russian. 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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The (official) residence of the Commercial Agent of the U.S.S.R. in Tehran
shall enjoy extra-territorial rights.
The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran has the right to the use
of code.
The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. shall publish in the Iranian
Official Gazette the names of persons authorised to perform legal acts on its ^
behalf, specifying the authority delegated to every such person in respect of the
signature of the commercial undertakings of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the
U.S.S.R. On the termination of any such person’s authority, the Commercial
Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. shall publish the fact in the Iranian Official Gazette, and
at its discretion in one of the newspapers published in the locality where the
person holding the authority exercised his functions. The date of the termination
of the authority of any person shall be the day on which the announcement was
first published.
The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran shall, as before, have
branches in Pahlavi, Tabriz and Meshed, and shall have the right, subject to
the consent of the Iranian Ministry of Commerce, to open branches as required
at other places in Iran.
Article 6.
The Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran acts in the name of the
Government of the U.S.S.R. The Government of the U.S.S.R. holds itself
responsible for all commercial transactions whatsoever which take place or are
guaranteed on behalf of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. by the operation of persons
holding authority from that agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
In order that the commercial transactions concluded or guaranteed by the
Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran shall be recognised as valid, the
documents of the transaction or guarantee must bear the signature of persons
authorised for this purpose by the Government of the U.S.S.R. or the People’s
Commissariat for Foreign Trade, whose names shall have been published in the
Iranian Official Gazette by the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R., with a
statement of the authority granted to each, as provided for in article 5 of this
ireaty.
All commercial transactions concluded or guaranteed on Iranian territory
by the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran, if the document on which the
transaction is based contains no provision for arbitration, are subject to the
jurisdiction of Iranian courts and Iranian law.
As by virtue of this article the Government of the U.S.S.R. takes responsi
bility for the transactions concluded or guaranteed on Iranian territory by its
Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Iran, the regulations regarding the giving of legal
security and the preliminary execution of orders issued through judicial or
administrative channels shall not apply in the case of claims brought against
the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. .
Only final judgments which have become legally enforceable, and which
concern differences arising out of transactions for which the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the U.S.S.R. has given a signature or guarantee in accordance with the second
paragraph of this article, shall be compulsorily enforced in respect of the
Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R.
Such judgments shall be enforced only in respect of the property and rights
of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran which relate to the transactions
contemplated in this article, and similarly in respect of other property of the
Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. situated in Iran.
Nevertheless, the enforcement of judgments contemplated in the preceding
paragraph of this article shall not apply to things which in generally accepted
usage of international law are deemed to be covered by extra-territoriality, nor
to articles necessary for the administrative conduct of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
of the U.S.S.R. in Iran.
Article 7.
The responsibility for commercial transactions performed, without the
guarantee of the Commercial Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. of the U.S.S.R. in Iran, on the part of
one of the economic organisations on the U.S.S.R., which is endowed under the
laws of the U.S.S.R. with the attributes of an independent legal personalitv,

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Correspondence, newspaper cuttings, treaties and other papers, reporting on commercial relations between Persia [Iran] and Russia. The papers cover: a deterioration in relations between Persia and Russia in 1932-33, culminating in the ban on Russian imports into Persia; the Persian Government’s Foreign Trade Monopoly Act of 1933 (ff 218-223); the Irano-Soviet Treaty of Establishment, Commerce and Navigation, agreed between the two nations in 1935; a copy of the treaty in French (ff 101-106); a further printed copy of the treaty in French and Russian (ff 42-85); the termination of the 1935 treaty in 1938; the agreement of a new Treaty of Commerce and Navigation in 1940, created in response to events in the Second World War (ff 3-7).

The file’s principal correspondents are: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare, Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull Hugesson, Horace James Seymour; the British Chargé d’Affaires at Tehran, Victor Alexander Louis Mallet; the Commercial Secretary at the British Legation in Tehran, Sydney Simmonds; HM’s Ambassador to Russia, the Viscount Chilston, Aretas Akers-Douglas; Noel Hughes Havelock Charles of the British Embassy in Moscow.

The file includes several items in French, being newspaper cuttings and texts from the Persian newspapers Le Messager de Teheran and Le Journal de Tehran.

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1 file (239 folios)
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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 240; 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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English, French and Russian in Latin and Cyrillic script
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