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'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier' [135r] (269/440)
The record is made up of 1 file (218 folios). It was created in 21 Nov 1939-7 Nov 1949. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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Ext. 3036/46 .
India Office
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
,
Whitehall,
S.W.l.
16th May 1946.
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You enquired the other day about the significance
of the phrase ” the most southerly palm in Safwan M in the
Political Residents express letter No. 476-S of 21st April.
2. The exact alignment of the Kuwait-Iraq Frontier in
this area is a question of considerable complexity, and came
up during the war in connexion with the construction of a
port at Umra-Qasr by the British Military authorities.
( The port facilities have since been dismantled, ) The
• difficulty arises from the fact that the existing definitions
of the frontier are ambiguous in themselves and inconsistent
with each other. It is perhaps only necessary to mention
here:
(1) , The definition in Article 7 of the Anglo-
Turkish Agreement of 29th July, 1913: M La ligne de demarcat
ion port de la cote a 1*embouchure du Khoz-Zubair vers le
4
nord-ouest et passe immediatement au sud d^umm Kasr, de
Safouan et de Djebel-Sanam, de facon a laisser ces endroits
et leurs puits au vilayet de Basra ".
(2) The description of the frontier agreed upon
by ^ir Percy Cox and the Shaikh of Kuwait in 1923: "From
the intersection of the
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
el ^udja with the Batin and
thence notthward along the Batin to a point just south of the
latitude of u afwan; thence eastwards passing south of Safwan'
wells, Jebel Sanam and Umm Qasr leaving them to Iraq and so
on to the junction of the Khor Zubair with the Khor Abdullah..
The latter definition was also accepted both by the Shaikh of
Kuwait and the Iraqi Government in 1932. Its interpretation
L.J.Gdss, Esq.,
/ however
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This file contains correspondence regarding the demarcation of the Iraq-Kuwait frontier including issues related to a disagreement between the governments of Iraq and Kuwait regarding the location of a specific border marker, smuggling between the two countries and the development of Umm al-Qasr port in Iraq and the potential implications thereof.
The primary correspondents in the file are British officials from the Foreign Office, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait, the Commonwealth Relations Office, the British Embassy in Baghdad and the British Consulate in Basra.
The file also contains a letter to the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. in Kuwait from the Ruler of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah (in Arabic with English translation) and a limited amount of correspondence with the Government of Iraq (folios 46 and 110).
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- 1 file (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-219; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/5/185
- Title
- 'File 4/6 II Kuwait-Iraq Frontier'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:36v, 38r:45v, 47r:109v, 111r:219v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence