"ملف ٢٢\٢٣ II مؤتمر الكويت ١٩٢٤" [و‎‎٨‎٦] (٥٤٤/١٧١)

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COLON! L KNOX 1 f l Ji>H 'SSIONf ABOUT TH i 1 L. V NTH CCNT , ’ 1 ''R
HLLI) AT 9:30 a.m.CN TH!: 19TH JANU RY
Prt-stnt: Sabih Beg, -nvoy ci Iraq accompanied by ’ vbdullah
A 1 Musfir and Secretary.
Present also Nejd delegation headed by Saiyid Kumzah.
^embers: Abdullah Damluji
: bdullah Aziz '^usaibi
and Saiyid Hashim ( Secretary}
President nd Secretary of the Conference also present.
The previous day’s proceedings ere read out by the
Secretary of the Iraq delegation and the v&rio s membert of the
Conference agreed that the proceedings had been correctly recorded.
the Nejd delegates and that question was ”If the Nejd delegates
are unable to obtain the consent of Iraq to the return of refugee
tribesmen, do th ir instructions permit them to agree to anything
at all ? M xefore allowing the question to be put the President
said that he had a few remarAs to make to the parties. He
suggested that both parties had shown themselves unable to agree
on points which they declared vit 1 to their case and he further
suggested that,instead of taking up the unreasonable attitude
”ii we cant get this, we can accept nothing at all 1 * , it would be
preferable to record in due and proper form the points on which
agreement had been reached and also at the same time and in the
same document the points on which it had been found absolutely
impossible to come to an,, agreement at all, thus, leaving a way of
escape to their principals, who could, if they p^e sed, on account
of this failure, repudiate the whol proceedings; the envoys would
aoleast be able to show some measure of agreement as the result
of their labours. There was even, though the President put it
forward with some reluctance, yet another way by which they could
give some degree of finality to the document itself end that was
to solemnly undertake in writing to refer the po nts,on which
they were in complete disaccord, to the arbitration of His
the Iraq envoy said that he had a question to ask