ملف ١١٦٦/ ١٩٢٥ "الجزيرة العربية: نجد؛ المفاوضات مع ابن سعود بشأن مسألة العراق-نجد وحدود شرق الأردن؛ بعثة السير ج. كلايتون؛ اتفاقية بحرة، الثاني من نوفمبر ١٩٢٥" [ظ‎‎١‎٩‎١] (٧٦٩/٣٨٩)

Correspondence relating to the Bahia Agreement.
Memorandum
Presented by His Highness the Sultan of Nejd after the sixth
meeting to Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., etc., His Britannic Majesty's *
Commissioner and Plenipotentiary.
Translation.
1st Rabi‘ Thani 1344
(19th October, 1925).
I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the Government
of Nejd are still of opinion that it is necessary to examine the pos
sibility of extraditing - criminals, in the hope of ensuring peace on the
frontier and of preventing all disturbers of the peace effectively. My
insistence in this matter is due to the particular experience I have, and
to my knowledge of desert conditions. My first object is to prevent
any rivalry or friction from arising between the two Governments,
and in this I am actuated by three main motives :—
(a) religion and honour, which compel us to act truthfully
and in keeping with our pledges;
(b) our special ties of friendship with His Majesty’s Govern
ment, which make it incumbent upon us to take a far-sighted
view;
(c) our desire to live in peace, quiet and amity with our
neighbours the State of ‘Iraq.
2. I am of opinion that the Agreement which you presented for
discussion this morning, although it may achieve some of the purposes
foi which we strive, does yet leave the door open to a great number
of 1 1 oublesome incidents of a kind of which we have had cause to
complain in the past. In particular, I have submitted to you the
following incidents as being of the kind which habitually occur in life
in the desert :—
(a) what should the attitude of the Nejd Government be if an
Iraqi tiibe, having committed a reprehensible crime involving
killing and plunder, were to take refuge in Nejd ; and what would
the same Government’s attitude be if that refugee tribe were to
commit the same crime, notwithstanding guarantees being taken
from it;
(b) what should the attitude of each of the Governments of
Iiaq and of Nejd be if a Nejd tribe, having been punished by the
Nejd Government for a raid into ‘Iraq, were to take refuge into
Iraq and then to raid Nejd from ‘Iraq, as was done by those
tribes w'ho had taken refuge with Nejd and then gone over to
Iraq, after the well-known incidents connected with Yusuf
Sa'dun ?