'File 38/17 Delimitation of Trucial state boundaries and Petroleum Concession Limited's Concession Areas on the Trucial Coast' [‎54r] (108/225)

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jettisoning the venerable authority •
of Lorimer and for deciding that
there is "no room for doubt that the
Khor Ghanadhah is in Abu Dhabi
territory", Col. Galloway’s
comments on paragraph 4 of the Shaikh
of Dubai’s claim enclosed with his
letter do not seem to be correct,
since in the map received with the
Political Officer, Trucial Coast’s •
despatch, Hasyan is shown North East
of Ghanadhah.
(3) The Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. ,
relies rightly, I think, on, inter
alia, the criterion given in paragraph
14(d) of his dispatch, in considering
a claim to sovereignty. Yet, while
applying this in favour of Dubai at
paragraph 16 in respect of the wells
forward his suggestion for a boundary
line - in the case of the one solution
("c") which is most favourable to
Dubai; for while admitting in the last
paragraph of his Appendix "B" that the
wells of A1 Eshush, Hafir and Ghafur
"appear to be used to a considerable
extent by Dubai", he nevertheless
includes them in Abu Dhabi territory.
The same comment applies to a lesser
extent to the remarks made by the
Political Officer, Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , in
the last sentence of paragraph 17 of
his dispatch, and in the second para
graph of Appendix E regarding Dubai’s
claim to Bada al Mughanni and points
10 and 11 (Khushub and Al Khair).
2. Where proofs are practically speaking unobtainable,
as in the present case, we might follow the principle
of giving in alternatively to each of the claimants.
This would take Khor Ghanadhah away from Dubai and start
the line at Rasyan, but while terminating it at Eshush
it should include that point and also Tawi Ghafur and
Tawi Hafir in Dubai territory. It would then be about
46 kilometres long and there seems to be no necessity
for carrying it further northwards at present. Incidentally
this line will meet the wishes of the Oil Company as
indicated in the enclosure to my printed letter No.C/R-68
dated the 27th Feb. 1949.
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Nakhera, Murra, Marmoum and Hibab,
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant
NNR
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. ,
BAHRAIN.