'File 6/7 I Kuwait landing ground' [‎122r] (248/524)

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HI® IxooXXoaoy 31 iaX^ch 31 r ^bimd 9 3aXor of Kinfalt f oa 18 uh
July, 19S4 at whioh Major Watt®, ; olltloal Agent, ,.\nrait t
was present, on th® subject of
fitb regard to the halkb’a contention that while
Bahrain wan getting a £*X20 ?®r amuua from the Royal Air
TaFQB In addition to what they reoelvod un^er the -dvil
Air Agre^ent, he - the haikh - was only receiving the
rent provided for by the Civil Air Agreement, X took the
following line:-
2* te* Major >attB had already pointed out to the
shaikh, there were 8'*concessions” in Bahrain:
1* The Civil aerodrome in uharraq covered
by the Civil Air /agreement;
2 # the Royal Air bro© aerodwme and Royal
Air Force base in ?'Bnmas.h for which the
£.120 was paid,
Likewise there were in Kuwait * -concessional
t -rhe Civil Aerodrome covered by the civil
Air Agreement;
2. The R.A.?. option on the Shuwelkh aron
•or which £.180 per anfiA rent would
■'^fe£4
be paid*
lie shaikh therefore was on
all fours with the Shaikh of
Bahrain, in fact better off ainoe in the ease of Kuwait
£.120 waa being paid only for an option while in Bahrein
it was being paid for actual use and poeeeaaion.
3. The nhaiSch seemed to see tha faroo of thebe
simple arguments and expressed hlaaelf satisfied with
the arrangements. It now remains for the Political -gent,
Kuwait , undor the ordera of Colonel I*oh, by an exchange
of letters with the .Shaikh, to obtain the formal option
of the tshuwalkh area for a period of 2 years at a rent,!