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PERSIAN GULF— Nejd —NO, IV—1922.
Article 3.
The duly appointed delegates of both Governments have agreed to the fore
going clauses of this Protocol and have set to it their signatures in ’ Uqair, on the
12th day of Rabi ’ II, 1341, corresponding to the 2nd of December, 1922.
Subih,
Representative of His Majesty the King of 'Iraq.
Faisal i&n Ai-IItrsAiy,~
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’Abdullah Sa’id Dam^uji,
Representative of IIis Highness the Sultan of Najd,
The Sultan of Najd and its Dependencies Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman
al Sa’ud has agreed to the Articles of this Protocol.
Translator's note .—The references are to Map Asia 1-1,000,000 Geographical
Section, General Staff, War Office, 1917-18. The spelling of the place names in
brackets is that given in the above map.
No. IV. -
KUWAIT-NAJD BOUNDARY CONVENTION—1922.
Kuwait-Najd Boundary Convention.
In the name of God the Merciful, the Compassionate.
The frontier between Najd and Kuwait begins in the West from junction of
the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. al Aujah (W. al Audja) with the Batin (El Batin), leaving Raq’i (Rikai)
to Najd, from this point it continues in a straight line until it joins latitude 29
and the red semi-circle referred to in Article 5 of the Anglo-Turkish Agreement
of 29th July 1913. The line then follows the side of the red semi-circle unUl it
laches a point terminating (sic) on the coast south of Ras al-Qali ah (Ra> el a
T a h) and this is the indisputable southern frontier of Kuwait territory. e
Portion of territory bounded on the North by this line and which is bounded on
the West by a low mountainous ridge called Shaq (Esh Shakk) and on t e
^7 the sea and on the South by a line passing from West to East from Shaq 9
Shakk) to ’Ain al ’Abd (Ain el Abd) and thence to the coast north of Ras al Mi-
sh’ab (Ras Mishaab), in this territory the Governments of Najd and Kuwait wi
fihare equal rights until through the good offices of the Government of Great Un-
t a io a further agreement is made between Najd and Kuwait concerning it.
The map on which this boundary has been made is Asia 1 1,000,000,
7 the Royal Geographical Society under the direction of the Gcograp
tion General Staff and printed at the War Office in the year 1918.