'A Collection of Treaties and Engagements relating to the Persian Gulf Shaikhdoms and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in force up to the End of 1953' [‎10ar] (20/92)

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portion of territory bounded on the North by this hn e and , , p
the West by a low mountainous ridge called Shaq (Esh .p ,
by the sea and on the South by a line passing from West to a q
Shakk) to 'Ain al 'Abd (Ain el Abd) and thence to the coast north o f al M -
sh'ab (Ras Mishaab), in this territory the Governments of Najd ^Kuwait will
share equal rights until through the good offices of the Gove . .
Britain a further agreement is made between Najd and Kuwait ,
The map on which this boundary has been made is Asia " ' ' '
by the Royal Geographical Society under the direction of the Geographical
Section General Staff and printed at the War Office in the year \y q.
Written in the port of 'Uqair and signed by the representatives of both
Governments on the second day of December 1922 corresponding to o
Rabi'al Thani, 1341. ^
Abdullah Sa id Damluji,
Representative of His Highness the Sultan of Najd.
J. C. More, Major,
Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Kuwait.
I have agreed to the contents of this agreement.
'Abdul 'Aziz bin 'Abdul Rahman as-Sa'ud,
Sultan of Najd and its Dependencies.
I have agreed to the contents of this agreement.
Ahmad al-Jabir as-Subah,
Hakim of Kuwait.
{Translator's note. —The spelling of place names in brackets is that used in
the map referred to in the treaty.)
No. 9
Extract from the Treaty of Jeddah, dated May 20, 1927, regarding
Relations between the King of the Hejaz and of Nejd and
the Gulf Sheikhdoms
See No. 11 Bahrein
No. 10
Letters from the Prime Minister of Iraq and the Ruler of Kuwait
Re-affirming the Kuwait-Iraq Boundary, dated July 21, 1932,
and August 10, 1932, Respectively—
id)
Nuri Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. to Sir F. Humphrys
Office of the Council of Ministers,
Bagdad, July 21, 1932.
I THINK your Excellency will agree that the time has now come when it is
desirable to reaffirm the existing frontier between Iraq and Koweit.
I therefore request that the necessary action may be taken to obtain the agree
ment of the competent authority or authorities in Koweit to the following descrip
tion of the existing frontier between the two countries: —
" From the intersection of the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -el-Audja with the Batin and thence
northwards along the Batin to a point just south of the latitude of Safwan;
thence eastwards passing south of Safwan Wells, Jebel Sanam and Um Qasr
leaving them to Iraq and so on to the junction of the Khor Zobeir with the
Khor Abdullah. The islands of Warbah, Bubiyan, Maskan (or Mashjan),
Failakah, Auhah, Kubbar, Qaru and Umm-el-Maradin appertain to Koweit."