Coll 17/15(1) 'Perso-Iraq Relations: Persia-Iraq frontier; Persia's claim in the Shatt-el-Arab' [‎237r] (484/961)

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except what had always been repeated, namely, the demand for evidence and
documents which could prove its statement. These proofs it did produce in
so clear a manner that, in its opinion, any discussion on the subject would
be needless; yet, in order to avoid any misunderstanding and to settle
disputes in the cordial spirit prevalent between the two States, the Legation
bad suggested to its Government to despatch a technical committee to study
the question more deeply on the spot, and to make quite sure that the Persian
police post was erected within Iraqi territory.
(£ The Iraqi Ministry of Defence accordingly entrusted the task to two
military engineers of the General Staff. The outcome was a lengthy report
founded on technical considerations studied on the spot, of which the
Legation cites here the following extracts :—
“The Extracts.
“ [Not reproduced.]
“ From the above, the Ministry will observe that the Iraqi Government
had despatched this committee and incurred the resulting expense and trouble
only to prove the genuineness of its point of view. The Legation observes
with satisfaction that the result confirmed by technical enquiry was consistent
with what had previously been put forward.
“ The Legation would like to add that the question of the post under
reference resembles in some of its aspects that of the Chigha Surkh post, the
evacuation of which the Imperial Government had ordered as soon as it was
satisfied that its point of view was not well founded.
£ £ In view of the details quoted above, the Legation is confident that the
Ministry will lose no time in giving the same attention to the matter, and
handling it in the same manner as that in which the question of the Chigha
Surkh post was treated.”
££ Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs to Royal Iraqi Legation, No. 159 of
March 25, 1934.
^ ££ In answer to the letter of the Royal Iraqi Legation, No. 969, dated the
23rd September, 1933, relating to the claim of the Legation regarding the
construction by Persian officials on the houndary o a oi ° ® p •
Jabal Maimak, the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of ^
Government have the honour to inform the Legation that the Legation nas
in the said memorandum taken as its authority the boun ary e i
protocol of 1914, and explained that the said fort had been built to the we
of pillar 35 in a place called Imam Nai. The Ministry th t e h \ al
that the Imperial Persian Government does ^knowledgeJhe offic 1
nature of the boundary delimitation protocol °, f j^^lr the definRion
consider the text of the said protocol as a basis an Covernments ”
and fixing of the alignment of the boundary between the two Governments.
“ Royal Iraqi Legation to the Persian Ministry for Foreign Affairs, No. 433
y 1 y of April 30, 1934.
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honour to enquire whether the documen , toco i relating to the Turco-
Persian Government does not ti ^ op f e 0 n the 4th November, 1913,
Persian Delimitation, signed at Coi P • £ the Demarcation
with its annexures, or the ““, ut T e ^° f ar v anl thl 28th October, 1914, with
Commission, held between the 21st Jc
its annexures. Wrneted bv the Government to inform
“ 2. The Royal Iraqi Legation is i^ terms, that the
the Ministry, in the most categoric November, 1913, by, among
protocol signed at Constantinople . q Minister for Foreign
others, Prince Said Halim Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , Grand Vizier ana ^