'File 6/33 Foreign Interests: Relations with Italy' [‎5v] (10/56)

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The two Governments agree that, immediately after the taking
effect of the said instruments, negotiations will be opened, m which
the Egyptian Government will be invited to participate so far as all
questions affecting Egypt or the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan are
concerned, with a view to a definitive agreement on the boundaries
between the Sudan, Kenya and British Somaliland on the one side
and Italian East Africa on the other; and with regard to other
questions affecting reciprocally (a) Italian interests on the one hand
and British, Egyptian or Sudan interests on the other hand in the
above-mentioned territories, and (b) the relations between those
territories. These negotiations wdil also include the question of
commercial relations between the Sudan and Italian East Africa.
It is also agreed that negotiations between the Government of the
United Kingdom and the Italian Government will take place as soon
as possible on the subject of commercial relations between Italian
East Africa and the United Kingdom, India, and British colonies,
overseas territories, protectorates and mandated territories adminis
tered by the Government of the United Kingdom, including the
subject of the application, on conditions to be established, to the whole
of Italian East Africa of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
signed at Rome on the 15th June, 1883. These negotiations will be
inspired by the common desire to further commercial relations
between these territories and to ensure adequate facilities for trade.
Done at Rome, in duplicate, the 16th April, 1938, in the English
and Italian languages, both of which shall have equal force.
PERTH. CIANO.