مجموعة ٤٥/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. مفاوضات حول إبرام معاهدة أنجلو-فارسية؛ إلغاء المعاهدات الحالية." [و‎‎٤‎٣] (١٥٤/٨٥)

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by the Persian Government, tut it does mean that I an
ticipate utmost difficulty in obtaining acceptance of
draft desired by His Majesty’s Government unless some
thing be added which would make Persian suspicions
groundless in t hei r eyeso
Would you see any objection to an exchange of notes
in which the Persian Government would make a statement
the effect of which would be that if research in their
archives brought to light any unabrogated agreement be
tween the two Governments of which they at present had
no knowledge, such an agreement would net be invoked to
justify a demand for a revision of the status quo or as
in any way impairing the validity of any part of the
treaty signed this day* The answer would be that His
Majesty’s Government fully shared the view of the Persian
Govsrnmento
I presume there would be no need to publish such
noteso
With regard to Bushire you will recollect that at
one moment Minister of Court endeavoured to maintain (see
paragraph 15 of my despatch Noo 92) that His Majesty’s
Government are unconditionally pledged to remove Residency
but made no attempt to press that point of view 0 The
question of the Residency has not been mentioned between
us for some time past, and I am not quite sure that Per-
isian Government are as set on its transfer as they were,
I feel sure however that they would not accept proposals
onbodied in draft exchange of notes« (See my despatch
No.146)o
Minister of Court would probably maintain that he
would.