'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier' [‎20r] (39/440)

nhottld be given to the 4eecription oi the frontier ieid
do%n by Sir Fere/ Cox in hme in coneo^oenee been
inoreaeed.
4« Man/ aspeeta of the whole question of deiaaroation
in relation to the Urn ^aar port »cher/«e were diaeueeed in a
letter from the foreign Office to the AgaifX^ty last August
« Ci,p/ of which was enclosed in Ue. dagg^llja/ 1 » letter to
me ho. & 64h9/: a/9ar Oi ioptember 19th, 1&59. The two
outatanking features appear to me to be* firstly* that a
wide latitude la possible in the permissible Interpretation
of the existing description of the frontier end, secondly*
that the exact manner in which the frontier is finally
defoarcated has acquired great importance in view of the urn
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wear port project and of the potential oil reacurcea of the
whole area. As earlier correapond^nc© has anown it aeema
possible to place tne frontier *lurt south of the latitude
of Sal’wan” anywhere from a yard up tc a mile to the south
©f whatever point may be fixed as being the southern limit
of bafwan *elia; a similar latitude is possible in deciding
upon the turner In .Ich t : ;.e line is trxn centinued.and also
in fixing the "junction of the F.hcr ^ubair with the hhor
\bdullah M which may be t&iten ao the interaection of the
deepest channel with the deepest channel of the hhor Bubiyan
or ao the intersection of the respective smedian linee* or
be fixed in seme other manner without reference to the
comparatively small hher Bubiyan at all.
£♦ Of course before ary t ;Ivan interpretation of the
boundary line can be implemented by demarcation it oaiat be
accepted by both novelt and Iraq but it seems clear that the
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