‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎71] (394/578)

PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XIX—1881.
APPENDIX No. XIX.—[.See page 16.]
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Convention between Persia and Russia defining tfie boundary between the two
countries east of the Caspian Sea (Akhal-Khorassan Boundary),—Signed
at Tehran, December, 1881.*f
21st
11th
[Ratifications exchanged at Tehran —— March 1882.]
23rd
In the name of God the Almighty.
His Majesty the Shah of Persia and His Majesty the Emperor and Autocrat of
all the Russias, acknowledging the necessity of accurately defining the frontier of
their Possessions east of the Caspian Sea, and of establishing therein security and
tranquillity, have agreed to conclude a Convention for that purpose, and have
appointed as their Plenipotentiaries :
His Majesty the Shah of Persia, on the one hand, Mirza Said Khan, Moutemid-
ul-Mulk, his Minister for Foreign Affairs ;
His Majesty the Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, on the other, Ivan
Zenovief, his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at the Court of
His Majesty the Shah ;
* Prom “ State Papers,” Vol. 73, page 97.
fThis Convention was laid before Parliament in 1882, with correspondence respecting the
Affairs of Central Asia, and formed an inclosure in the following despatch :—
Mr. Thornton lo Earl Granville—{Received 6lh March).
Tehran, 23rd January 1882.
My Loud,
“ I have the honour to transmit herewith, for your Lordship’s information, translation of the
Akhal-Khorassan Boundary Treaty, lately concluded between Russia and Persia, as reported
in my telegram of the 4th January.
“ This translation has been made from the Russian text by Mr. Stephen. Comparing it
with the Persian version 1 observe that the terms employed in Article V are not the same in both
languages. In the Russian text it is stated that both Governments etigage, with a view to the
development of commercial intercourse between the Trans-Caspian province and Khorassan,
to come to a mutually advantageous agreement for the construction of waggon-roads between
the above-mentioned provinces ; whereas in the Persian version of this clause it is said that, in
order to facilitate commercial operations between the Trans-Caspian provinces and that of
Khorassan, the two Contracting Powers engage, as regards the construction of waggon-roads
for the transport of merchandise between the aforesaid countries, to make such arrangements as
may be of mutual advantage to them.
14 The Minister for Poreign Affairs has informed me that the Nasseer-ed-Dowleh, who was
brmerlv employed in the Persian Foreign Office, and lately in the Ministry of Justice, will be
named Commissioner under Article If of this Convention for the local demarcation of the line
of frontier, on the basis agreed upon in Article 1.
Eni Granville ,