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File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations' [157r] (318/1132)
The record is made up of 1 volume (562 folios). It was created in 19 Aug 1929-29 Jul 1931. It was written in English and French. 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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Minute Paper*
political Department.
3818 a 5000 S .29
This despatch is submitted on the main
negotiations file, in view of the interest of the
explanation given by Taimourtache and reported in it
of his transfer of responsibility for the negotiations
with His Majesty’s Government to the new Foreign
Minister. It will be seen that the Minister of Court
has again expressed his anticipation of a very early
settlement. It remains to be seen whether this will
come about.
^ as regards the specific proposal to which the
Foreigi Office refer in paragraph 2 of their letter,
the present position is that we have agreed m
principle to a conference to consider the question of
lighting and buoying in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, and that a
communication to this effect has been made to the
*
Minister of Court. Instructions to our representatives
have not yet been drafted (it is not now probable that
the conference will take place before October, at ^
earliest), but there is general agreement that our
object must be to give away as little as possible, and
to retain - unless this proves absolutely
impracticable - control of essentials even m Persian
territorial waters in our own hands; if the worst
comes to the worst and we have to give way about
territorial waters, then that this should be the
utmost limit of our abdication.
3. I see no objection to the insertion in the
Treaty of a clause "in very general terms" to deal
with lighting and buoying, so long as this does not
commit us in any way on the essentials about which we
propose to negotiate, but it seems important to ensure
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This volume contains correspondence regarding wide-ranging negotiations that took place between Reza Shah's Minister of Court, ‘Abdolhossein Khan Teymourtache [Teymurtash], and the British Legation in Tehran, the aim of which was the agreement of a bilateral treaty between the two governments in order to resolve a number of outstanding issues. The majority of the correspondence in the volume is internal correspondence between British officials, but it also contains a limited amount of correspondence in French that was exchanged between the British Minister in Tehran, Sir Robert Clive, and Teymourtache.
In addition to this correspondence, the volume contains the following documents:
- 'Minutes of an Inter-departmental conference held at the Foreign Office on Wednesday, July 29th, 1931', (folios 6-13)
- Draft text of general treaty between Persia and Britain written in French, (folios 62-83)
- Copy of the concession granted to Baron Julius de Reuter to establish a bank in the Persian Empire under the name of 'The Imperial Bank of Persia' in 1889, (folios 341-342).
The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (562 folios)
- Arrangement
The subject 200 (Anglo-Persian Treaty Negotiations) consists of eight volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/1250-1257. The volumes are divided into ten parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume, parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising one volume each, parts 6 and 7 comprising the fifth volume, and parts 8, 9 and 10 comprising one volume each.
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 564; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- File 200/1928 Pt 5 'Persia: Anglo-Persian Relations, Treaty Negotiations'
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- front, back, spine, spine , 1v:100v, 102r:255v, 257r:303v, 305r:554v, 558r:564r
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