Papers of the Mesopotamian Administration (later Middle East) Committee [‎4r] (7/80)

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Kicvt the British, service which will administer
the ^ now Mosopots^nian province or sphere should be,, not the
Indian Givil service but a special service, cithor indo-
pondont or connected with the levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. or other British
services.- Doubtless in the initial stages Indian officers
will bo recuirod.
the
^ 10, That hrabist^n being a Persian Province,
.hieinh of Hohanunora being a Persian subject and the
karun hiyar being'an artery that flows entirely through
rorsian territory, it sceres desirable tlxat they should
remain under the same form of political influence as
will.onist in the remainder of S. Persia,
That, under the revision of the Ingle-
Russian Agrecrnont ab6ut Persia that will bo inevitable
when the war is over, this influence will necessarily
be a British influence, and will naturally bo exorcised
by the Indian Government,
If, That the British sphere'of influence, as
exercised by the Indian Government, should include the
Balchtiari country, and the regions hitherto included in
the neutral so no, i, o <■ the regions Bouth of Ispahan,
Yozd and Borman, It will thoroforo be contiguous with
the existing Russian swhere.
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region, i;
That tho British Consuls or Officers in this
. • a t any or all of tho following places;
Kohammora, Ahwaz, Disful 5 ohdshtcf, Shiraz, Bushiro,
Lingah, Bunder Abbas, Berman, etc. should bo nominated
by tho Indian Government, although in the cases of Shiraz
and Berman (?) they would reruiro to ronort also to tho
British liinistor at Teheran,
14. That the nrab tribes on the Post and Southern
shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. from the Southern borders of
hove it to and including Iluscat should remain as now under
tho Indian G-overmont, i.c, under a British Be si dent at
Bushire,
15. That tho sphero of the Government of India
should^ for tho present incltido as nov 7 the Southern coasts
oi nrabia and tho Hadramaut, leaving over the question
the future of Aden.
of
16, That it is net desirable
plate any disturbance of tho Cairo
which should include Bestern Arabia
Yemen).
at present to eontem-
spherc Of influence,
Tile jas, Asir and
17. Tha t a Sub -C ornai 11 oe c ons is ting of
Koldernoss (Chairman), Sir A, Hirtzol, Sir LB
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and Sir li, Graham, bo an.jointed to investigate the details
of the division between the Indian and Mesopocamian
services, and the sources of recruitment for the latter,
and to report to the Committee.
21st Larch 1917
(sd) Lark Sykes