مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎١‎٦‎٢] (٣٨٠/٣٢٧)

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Translation.
(2) to be present at all the meetings of the Board of Directors,
of its committees and at all the meetings of stockholders,
which have been convened to consider any question
arising out of the relations between the Government and
the Company ;
( 3 ) to preside ex-officio, with a casting vote, over the
Committee to be set up by the Company for the purpose
of distributing the grant for and supervising the
professional education in Great Britain of Persian
nationals referred to in Article 16 ;
(4) to request that special meetings of the Board of
Directors be convened at any time, to consider any
proposal that the Government shall submit to it. These
meetings shall be convened within 15 days from the date
of the receipt by the Secretary of the Company of a
request in writing to that end.
The Company shall pay to the Government to cover the expenses
to be borne by it in respect of the salary and expenses of the above-
mentioned Delegate a yearly sum of two thousand pounds sterling
(£2,000). The Government shall notify the Company in writing of
the appointment of this Delegate and of any changes in such
appointment.
ARTICLE 16.
(I) Both parties recognise and accept as the principle governing
the performance of this Agreement the supreme necessity, in their
mutual interest, of maintaining the highest degree of efficiency
and of economy in the administration and the operations of the
Company in Persia.
(II) It is, however, understood that the Company shall recruit
its artisans as well as its technical and commercial staff from among
Persian nationals to the extent that it shall find in Persia persons
who possess the requisite competence and experience. It is likewise
understood that the unskilled staff shall be composed exclush el\
of Persian nationals.
(III) The parties declare themselves in agreement to study and
prepare a general plan of yearly and progressive reduction of the
non-Persian employees with a view to replacing them in the
shortest possible time and progressively by Persian nationals.
(IV) The Company shall make a yearly grant of ten thousand
pounds sterling in order to give in Great Britain, to Persian nationals,
the professional education necessary for the oil industry.