"سلسلة ذات طابع سري، عربستان ولورستان ٨٦ ملف ٨٢/٢٧ - V نفط قطر" [و‎‎١‎٣‎٢] (٤٦٦/٢٧٢)

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EASTERN (Arabia).
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July 3, 1934
Section 2.
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[E 4341/279/91] No . i.
, , Slr A • R y an t0 Sir John Simon.—{Received July 3 )
(No. 187.) ^
HIS Majesty’s Minister at Jedda presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and has the honour to transmit
to him copy of his note of the 15th June to the Acting Saudi Minister for Foreign
Affairs respecting the Qatar boundaries. °
Jedda, 'June 15, 1934.
Enclosure in No. 1.
/vr A . Ryan to Acting Saudi Minister for Foreign Affairs
Jedda, June 15, 1934.
Your Excellency,
(After compliments.)
I HAY E the honour to state that 1 duly conveyed to His Majesty’s Govern
ment in the I nited Kingdom the contents of your Excellency’s note of the
29th Muharram, 1353 (13th May, 1934), relative to boundaries in Eastern Arabia.
Having carefully considered the contents of your note and the reports which I
had already addressed to them regarding my conversation with your Excellency
on the 2nd May, my Government have instructed me to inform the Saudi Govern
ment of their inability to admit that events since the conclusion of the Anglo-
Turkish Conventions of 1913 and 1914 have modified the legal position defined
in my note of the 28th April. They cannot but regard that position as
binding on the Saudi Government and as being only susceptible of alteration by
agreement between that Government and themselves. So far as the boundaries
now in question are concerned, they do not consider that any developments in
Arabia since 1914 have been such as to render inappropriate to present circum
stances the blue line laid down in the Anglo-Turkish Convention of 1913 and duly
confirmed by the convention of 1914.
With highest respects,
ANDREW RYAN.
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