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File 87/1926 Pt 3 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Treaty negotiations' [166r] (324/895)
The record is made up of 1 item (449 folios). It was created in 5 Nov 1926-27 Nov 1930. 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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Telegram from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affaire
to the Governor General of Canada.
(Sant 9 p.m. 2nd May, 1927)
2nd May Secret Your telegram 16th April. le
entirely agree that proposed treaty with the iiejas is one
mainly of concern to Hie Majesty's Government in Great
Britain, but as regards concluding words of your telegram
it will, of course, be remembered that draft treaty refers
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to certain obligations which are expressed/being of general
application (see my telegram of 0th jecember). As ex
plained in that telegram the mention of such obligations
in relation to Hie Majesty's territories is only necessary
in order to secure the observance of corresponding oblige-
tiono on the part of the King of the hsjas. Their ob
servance in all iiis Majesty's territories might mil have
been taken for granted. Once, however, it had been found
necessary that bilateral obligations of the kind in ques
tion should fora the subject of treaty stipulatione, it
became difficult on account of the special relationship
between the different parte of the Britiah .Aspire to ex
press them as undertaken by Hie Britannic Majesty in respect
of part of his territories only. for the same reason, it
became equally difficult to exclude nominatim from the
obligations uuaertaken any specific part or parts of His
Majesty's territories; to do so would have implied what
was obviously unaeairable as well os untrue, vis; that the
part or parts excluded reserved the light to act otherwise
than in tbs manner described in the Treaty. It was these
difficulties which led to the proposal that the Treaty
should
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The correspondence relates to the treaty negotiations which took place at Mecca between British Government representatives and Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd, also written in the correspondence as Bin Saud], King of the Hejaz and the Sultan of Nejd from November 1926 until May 1927, when the Treaty of Jeddah was signed, thus replacing its predecessor, the Anglo-Najdi friendship treaty of 1915.
The main correspondents are the following successive chief negotiators: Stanley Rupert Jordan, British Consul and Agent at Jeddah (assisted by George Habib Antonius, translator); and Gilbert Falkingham Clayton, His British Majesty's Envoy to Ibn Saud.
The earliest document is a 1918 Foreign Office Memorandum on British commitments to Ibn Saud. It includes a detailed account of the treaty negotiations, 1913-1915, between Bin Saud and Sir Percy Cox, the British Resident in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , as well as the drafts and final text of the friendship treaty between the British Government and Ibn Saud, as signed on 26 December 1915 and ratified on 18 July 1916.
There is one item of correspondence in French dated November 1930. It is a letter of enquiry to the Foreign Office, from the French Ambassador to London, regarding French treaty negotiations with Ibn Saud and the latter's demand for assistance in obtaining a renewal of the supply of revenues from the Haramain Waqfs, which are Muslim endowments for the upkeep and improvement of religious shrines in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
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