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Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention' [‎453v] (917/1190)

The record is made up of 1 volume (591 folios). It was created in 18 Aug 1926-28 Jun 1933. 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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13. To deal with the matter the Conference recommended the
tenance of the existing naval forces in the Gulf; the application of iTes^'
to the local Sheikhs ; the grant of authority immediately to establish a
boat coastal patrol should an increase of the traffic take place • ti? 1
establishment of a wireless installation at Koweit; and the making of off ^
to persuade the Sheikh of Koweit to establish registration of armc ^
lines accepted in Unseat in 19] 2. mS 0U the
Naval C. in C.,
B. Indies, to Adm.,
Mar 21 15)21. F. 1795
Id. The death in March 1921 of Sheikh Salim of Koweit had remov ]
the principal figure in the arms traffic, and the succession of Sheikh Ahnnd
el-Jabir afforded an opportunity to apply pressure to the Principality iiuhe
matter (cp. para. 3 of Koweit Memorandum on p. JJ)- In view of this •uul
of the finding of the Conference that the trade in arms was relaVivelv
insignificant, the Government of India and His Majesty’s Government
decided that the problem was not sufficiently serious to" justify soechl
expenditure on wireless or special coastal motor boats, and that exist in o-
arrangements were probably adequate to meet it.
Tel. from Pol. Res.
to S. of S. for I.,
May 1 1925, P. 1345.
Pol. Res. to G. of I.,
May 16 1925,
P. 1909.
Pol. Res. to G. of I.,
March 18 1926.
P. 1418.
I.O. to G. of I.,
Sept. 23 1926,
P. 3106.
15. That decision has been justified by events. The new Sheikh of Koweit
has actively co-operated with His Majesty’s Government in the suppression
of the arms traffic since his accession in 1921; by 1925 the Politied
Resident was able to report (in connection with the deliberations of the Anns
Traffic Conference at Geneva) that the trade, whether to Makran or to the
httoial between the Shatt-al-Arab and Tingah, was relatively unimportant*
in April 1920 it was decided that the maintenance of the telephone*and
patrol establishment instituted on the Makran coast in 1907 in connection
with the abolition of the arms traffic was no longer necessary ; and while
in the same year the efforts of the Persian Government to disarm their
subjects on the south Persian coast led to a temporary increase of smugMino-
fiorn that coast to 1 racial Oman (in connection with the suppression of
which His Majesty’s Government agreed that, provided they reported their
captures, the Trucial Chiefs might lie authorised to retain, for the use of
their own military forces, such arms and ammunition as were seized by them),
the repoits of the local authorities have otherwise shown 3 r ear by year a
consistent decrease in the trade, to which the exhaustion of the supplv of
arms on the Arab coast has doubtless contributed.
UllllllCLJ. J .
16. \\ bile a continual vigilance is necessary, the problem at the present
day is one of inconsiderable dimensions, and the engagements existing
between His Majesty’s Government and the rulers of the Arab littoral and
eisia, coupled with the presence of His Majesty’s ships, are adequate, if
stncth interpreted, to keep it within bounds. On the Persian littoral it is,
moieovei, c efimtely to the interest of the Persian Government that it should
r e , 1( ( u 1 ce( . t0 Ihe lowest possilffe level, but Persia is only slowly establishing
l 61 aU . 1011 *? ln Persian Baluchistan; she is for practical purposes impotent
ff T ’ f a o• S( T r • aS concerne( l the trade is kept under thanks to the
f- ui , 8 ? j 18 Majesty s Government. An international undertaking on the
1116 11 ° & r ^' c Convention of 1925, if ratified and put into force,
won . a ok a valuable additional obstacle to any recrudescence of the trade.
f'umf 11 m t - Je a ' se . llce Sl \ c | 1 an undertaking, the fact that the Convention
^ " as signedHf not ratified, by the principal arms exporting countries
- i ^ 1 ? ^ ni ^d States of America, has the advantage of reducing
su )s an la \ t ie danger of obstructive action such as that taken by France
e eai y *) T eais M the period now under consideration in connection with
the arms traffic m Muscat.
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. ,
8th October 1928.
J. G. L.

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The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provisions in an international covenant at the Geneva Disarmament Conference of 1932-1933.

The principal correspondents are: the Government of India Foreign and Political Department; the 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. Political Department; the Admiralty; the Foreign Office; HM Minister at Tehran (R H Hoare); the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and the UK Delegate to the Disarmament Conference (E H Carr). The volume also contains a number of communications received from members of the Persian Government (Muhammad Ali Foroughi [Furūghī], Abdolhossein Teymourtache, and Anoushirvan Khan Sepahbodi).

The material principally concerns negotiations between the Persian [Iranian] and British Governments. The Persian Government wished to have the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and the Gulf of Oman excluded from the list of special maritime zones, and sought British support in achieving this at the Conference. In response to British concerns about the possible impact on their ability to effectively limit the transport of arms and slaves in the region, the Persian Government proposed a bilateral Anglo-Persian treaty.

The following topics are discussed in depth:

The following are particular items of interest:

  • memorandum of the Persian Delegation to the League of Nations, noting their objections to the Arms Traffic Convention, ff 517-522;
  • communication from HM Legation to Tehran, enclosing details of an interview with the Persian Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for the Court (Foroughi and Teymourtache), ff 492-500;
  • minutes of the Interdepartmental Cabinet Committee on the International Disarmament Conference, ff 394-420;
  • details of a meeting between the Foreign Office and the Persian Minister to Switzerland (Sepahbodi), ff 185-192;
  • Persian Government aide-mémoire on the progress of the negotiations, ff 121-124.

The volume includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the volume by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio 1).

Extent and format
1 volume (591 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 587; these numbers are written in pencil, 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. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the two leading and ending flyleaves. A previous foliation sequence has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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