مجموعة ٣٠/ ١٨ (٢) "الخليج الفارسي: البحرين، رسوم العبور: موقف ابن سعود" [ظ‎‎١‎٩‎١] (٧٨٠/٣٨٢)

case of the steamship Ahmedi) of vessels carrying cargo direct to the Saudi coast
°.f fhe inainland. this point could be dealt with, and the above assurance
connimed, m a separate note. The assurance given by the Bahrein delegates on
is point would be perpetual in character, and he hoped that this would leave
tne way clear for the projected exchange of notes.
FUAD BFT HAMZA said that his Government would, of course, have no
objection to instituting a system of manifests for vessels sailing between their
poits and Bahrein; and he thought that the assurance which the Bahrein
broieinment were ready to give would solve the difficulty arising out of the
Afimedi case, to which he knew that King Abdul Aziz attached special
importance. But he was not himself familiar with the present state of the
question, having left Jedda before the latest discussions, and would therefore
have to refer the matter to the King.
Some discussion followed upon the procedure which should be followed in
drawing up the formal agreement to embodv the results of the conference It
was agreed that the perpetual undertaking with reference to the case of the
steamship A hmedi should be contained in a separate note, while the other results
ot the conference would be embodied in an exchange of notes between His
Majesty s Government and the Saudi Government, to be exchanged either in
London or m Jedda^ The Foreign Office would endeavour to produce the
necessary drafts for Fuad Bey to see before he left England on the 22nd Julv
It was however, explained to Fuad Bey that this might not after all be possible
since the wording of the translation of the Bahreini delegates’ letter to the Saudi
delegates, recording the position reached in the local conference, appeared to
contain some small ambiguities, such as the technical department of the Foreign
Office might object to incorporating in an official Anglo-Saudi exchange of notes
The Foreign Office would, however, do their best; but the actual exchange of notes
vvould, in any case, have to be postponed, as Fuad Bey would have to submit the
drafts to his Government for their approval.
Foreign Office, July 18, 1935.