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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [362v] (412/840)
The record is made up of 1 item (421 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1925-14 Dec 1926. It was written in English. 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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Koweit that so long as he and his heirs and successors
act up to their obligations under the Agreement, His
Majesty's Government undertake to support them and
accord them their good offices. His Majesty's
Government reserve to themselves the right to interpret
that term at their discretion". As to the point to
which His Majesty's Government were in fact prepared
to go, on occasion, in interpreting the term, reference
is invited to Sir A.Hirtzel's note of 27th October 1911,
and to the events of 1901 and 1902 alluded to there,
* ♦ * i
when aggression by land by the Turks and later by
Ibn Rashid was apprehended,
(c) Ages,fluent <?£ ito. gJasj-.hL.aL,Kflaeit.^Aa.tgd 24th
liav 19QQ to prohibit the importation of arms <into,
and their exportation from Koweit.
(d) Po_atal Agreement dated 28th February 1904.
(e) Secret Agreement dated 15th October 1907 for, the
1 lease of the Bunder Shwlkh foreshore
In the fifth article of the two documents
constituting the agreement the Sheikh reaffirmed his
pledge not to cede sell etc any Koweit territory to any
foreign Government or foreign subject without His
Majesty’s Government permission*
In the ninth, the British Government promised that H the
town of Koweit and its boundaries belong to....the
Sheikh of Koweit and to his heirs after him, end that
all Sheikh Mubarak' ’s arrangements in the matter of
customs etc, and all his arrangements at the present
day shall remain in the hands of Sheikh Mubarak-ac-
oubah, ruler of Koweit, and his heirs after him....
P.1446/11
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The papers cover the recognition of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] as King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies by foreign countries, and also contain:
- Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, KBE, CB, CMG, on his Mission to negotiate certain Agreements with the Sultan of Nejd, and Instruction issued to him in regard to his Mission , 1926 (ff 516-560)
- Negotiations for revision of the 1916 Treaty with Ibn Saud
- A conference held at the Colonial Office to discuss HM Government's relations with Ibn Saud, 1926
- Relations between Ibn Saud and Persia
- Agreement with the Sultan of Nejd regarding certain questions relating to the Nejd-Trans-Jordan and Nejd-Iraq frontiers , 1925 (ff 395-402)
- The Hejaz- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan border.
The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 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. , the Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, HM Consul at Jeddah, and the Viceroy.
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- File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.'
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