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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [‎132r] (264/482)

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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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Tran f lat loa,
navaSTIYA *
doth AWUOT, 19^5
HaiS-tKOT BiiTV.aBi< THS
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TKHHAH* 29th Adguet. (TASS).
On the 37th August at the Persian Ministry for Foreign
Affaire, Comrade Chernov, the Soviet i^ubaesaaor to Iran, and
Comrade Shoetak, the Soviet Trane Kepresentative, signed a
commercial treaty between the U*S.S.^. and Iran, the Iranian
side the treaty was signed by Kasemi, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, and Alia^, the Head of the Department of Trade.
Simultaneously with the signature of the treaty, the
Trade Delegation concluded with the Iran Ministry of Finance
contracts for the annual sale to Iran of Soviet cloth, ferrous
metals, sugar, matches, cement, ana also for supply of
machines and technical equipment. The Trade Delegation has
received orders for the construction anu equipment of several
rice-cleaning, cotton-bleaching, and wool-washing establishments.
The Iran Government are also conducting conversations with
the Trade Delegation for giving to the Soviet Union orders for
the construction and equipment of a number of other undertakings
of great importance to Iran economy.
Simultaneously with the signature of the commercial agree
ment the Soviet Ambassador and the Minister for Foreign Affairs
signed the following conventions: veterinary, combat ing of
locusts, and combat ing of agricultural peata.
Finally the Soviet Ambassador and the Iran Minister for
Foreign Affairs exchanged notes for the bringing into force of
the Hallway Convention between Iran ana the U.S.8.*. regarding
direct trailic anu transit communications. Simultaneously an
agreement was signed by the transport orgsnisatlons of the two
countries lor loading and re—loading work at the Iran ports on
the Caspian Sea. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs informed
the Soviet Embassy in a special note that the Iran Government
intended to put through s programme for the development of
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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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