ملف ١٩٢٦/٣٩٣٩ الجزء ٥ "تنقيح معاهدات أيتشيسون: بلاد فارس، وسيستان، وكرمان وبلوشستان الفارسية" [و‎‎٢‎٧‎٥] (٥٥٨/٥٤٣)

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No. p 2585/119/91
nr^T^TIAL
foreign office,
s/: t . i.
7th July, 1927.
Sir,
TT ith reference to Foreign Office letter No. E
2582/119/91 Ox oune 29th snd previous correspondence
regarding Sir G. Clayton^ negotiations with the King of the
Hejaz and Nejd, I am directed by Secretary Sir Austen
Chamberlain to inform you that a request was made by Ibn
Saud during those negotiations that he should be supplied
with copies of all existing treaties and agreements between
His !'ajesty f s Government and the various Rulers and Chiefs
in Arabia and on the Persian Gulf.
2. The Secretary of State will be glad to receive the
observations of the Earl of Birkenhead regarding the reply
which should be made to this request. The position appears
to be as follows.
3. A collection of treaties and agreements with the
Sheikhs of Koweit and Bahrein and with the Trucial Chiefs of
Oman, copy of which is enclosed herein, was communicated to
the Turkish Representative in London on October 24th, 1911.
This collection was printed as an annex to the Anglo-
Turkish Convention of July 29th, 1913, respecting the Persian
Gulf and adjacent territories; and as all the treatise etc.
included therein have been published in "Aitchison’s
Treaties", there ccn be no objection to Ibn Saud being
supplied with copies thereof.
4. In communicating these documents to the Turkisn
Representative, His Majesty's Government intimatea
they had informed the Sheikh of Koweit that, eo lorg
and his heirs and successors acted up to their obliu, tions
under the Agreement of 1899, His Majesty's Government
undertook to support them and accord them their good
The Under-Secretary of State,
India Office .
offices/