"ملف 19/243 IV الزبارة" [و‎‎١‎٤‎٤] (٣٢٢/٢٨٧)

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cannot "be expected to concede any rights which would detract from
that sovereignty. In view, however, of Your Highness's clearly
expressed desires in this matter, I am willing to instruct my
officers to use their good offices on Your Highness f s behalf in
an endeavour to negotiate a private agreement whereby the Sheikh
of Qatar would extend to Your HighneBB and the members of Your
Highness's family, the free right to visit the ruins of Zubareh,
though not to inhabit them or undertake any work of construction
or demolition. I must, however, make it clear that in any such
matter H.M-O. must regard the Sheikh of Qatar as having the full
right to refuse such an agreement or in the event of his acceptance,
to impose such conditions or consideration as he may deem appropriate.
4. Before concluding, I cannot refrain from expressing some
surprise at the language used by Your Highness in the tenth
paragraph of your letter. Your attitude towards His Majesty's
Government's decision on the boundary of the sea bed between
Qatar and Bahrain is regrettably unlike that of other Rulers in
the Gulf x in similar cases, and is hardly in consonance with your
own past attitude to His Majesty's Government and with the
tradition of your ancestors.