'File 4/13 Kuwait-Iraq Relations (Extradition Rights)' [‎8v] (16/156)

The Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent.
No.C/^c, (4/13)
Kuwait,
September, 1949.
Please refer to your telegram Nos175 and 207 of
the 22nd June and 31st July, and to the enclosure to your
complimentary slip No.229/3/49 of the 10 th June.
cars. Meanwhile, he has told me that he apprehends that if
he surrenders them he will establish a prededent of which
the Iraq Government will take advantage and continue to
press him to surrender fugitives without ever agreeing
to surrender Kuwaiti fugitives on the rare occasions on
which he might ask them to do so.
3. If His Majesty^ Government favour such a course,
he would have no objection to their concluding on his
behalf a formal extradition treaty with Iraq - similar
to the one between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia - on the
basis of reciprocity 5 and, indeed, he would prefer
this to dealing with cases on an ad hoc basis. At
present he feels he is asked to surrender fugitives
without having any assurance, or indeed confidence,
that Iraq would do the same for him.
4. The conclusion of such a treaty would be at
least one step towards the establishment of better
relations between Kuwait and Iraq and I recommend that
the idea should be pursued.
2* I have taken up all three cases with the Sheikh
who is trying to find Hatim Hamid, Fatima bint All and the
H.E. Sir Rupert Hay, KCIE., CSI.,
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Bahrain.