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Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’ [182r] (364/482)
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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British LegXZX
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Sir,
With refer(3noe to ay despatch No* 415 of August 26th 1965
I hare the honour to report that Monsieur L*M»K&rakhan, Assistant
Comalsear for Foreign Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics arrived in Tehran on September 29th accompanied by Monsieur
Vladimir Ossetroff, Vice-Director of a department in the Commiss
ariat for Foreign Affairs and Monsieur Pierre Chrisanfoff, his
Chef dt& Cabinet* Three military officers also accompanied the
missionjthelr duty being to look after the presents which Monsieur
Karakhan brought for the Shah consisting of three light armoured
tanks and certain rifles and other weapons manufactured in the
Soviet Union*
2* The Persian Government received Monsieur Karakhan with almost
royal honours, partly no doubt with the desire to flatter him but
possibly even more in order to flatter their own vanity and show
the visitor how powerful and up-to-date s country Persia now is*
In a garden outside the gates of Tehran Monsieur Karakhan was met
by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Chief of Staff, the Chief
of Police, the Governor of Tehran, the Director-General of the
Municipality and also the Turkish and Afghan Ambassadors* A guard
of honour was present* The party then proceeded to the town house of
the Minister of War which had been lent to Monsieur Karakhan for
his visit* A banquet took place at which members of the Persian
Government and Soviet Embassy were present in the course of whieh
toasts were proposed and speeches delivered by the Minister for
Foreign Affairs and Monsieur Karakhan* I have the honour to
enclose
The Right Honourable
Sir John Simon G*C*S*I*,
etc#, etc*, etc*,
FOREIGN OFFICE.
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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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- Title
- Coll 28/65 ‘Persia. Perso-Soviet Commercial Relations.’
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- front, front-i, 2r:3r, 9r:23v, 25r:41v, 86r:87v, 90r:91v, 93r:95v, 97r:100v, 106v, 107v:113v, 115r:116r, 117r:131v, 134r:139v, 142r:169v, 171r:186v, 190r:204v, 206r:206v, 208r:213r, 214v:218r, 224r:226r, 227r:232v, 234r:240v, back
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