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File 87/1926 Pt 2 'Arabia: Bin Saud: Relations with H.M.G. Revision of Treaty.' [552r] (791/840)
The record is made up of 1 item (421 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1925-14 Dec 1926. It was written in English. 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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71
Article 11.
The Arabic version is the official text to be referred to in the inter
pretation of the Articles of the present Agreement.
Article 12.
The present Agreement shall be known as “ The Bahra Agree
ment.”
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Signed at Bahra Camp this fourteenth day of Rabi‘ Thani 1344,
corresponding to the first day of November, 1925.
(Signed) Gilbert Clayton.
(Signed and Sealed) ‘Abdu’l-'Aziz.
ANNEXURE 12.
1. Letter from Sir Gilbert Clayton relating to the date of effect of
The Bahra Agreement.
2. Reply of the Sultan of Nejd.
Sir Gilbert Clayton, K.B.E., etc., His Britannic Majesty's Commis
sioner and Plenipotentiary, to His Highness ( Abdu’l-Aziz ibn
‘Abdu’r-Rahman al-Faisal Al Sa‘ud, Sultan of h ejd and its
Dependencies.
Bahra Camp,
1st November, 1925.
Your Highness,
1 have the honour to inform Your Highness that I am instructed
bv His Majesty’s Government that the Agreement which has been
concluded between Your Highness and myself in regard to certain
1 rentier questions which were outstanding between the Governments
of Nejd and of ‘Iraq, and which was duly signed on the Is
November, 1925, cannot become operative until it has been formall>
ratified by the Government of ‘Iraq.
The Agreement will be transmitted without delay by His Majesty s
Government to the Government of ‘Iraq with a request for early
ratification, and the date of that ratification will be notified in due
course by His Majesty’s Government to Your Highness as the dat
on which the aforesaid Agreement will come into operation.
I shall be grateful if Your Highness will kindly acknowledge
receipt of this letter.
I have, etc.,
Gilbert Clayton.
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The papers cover the recognition of Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] as King of the Hedjaz and Sultan of Nejd and its dependencies by foreign countries, and also contain:
- Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton, KBE, CB, CMG, on his Mission to negotiate certain Agreements with the Sultan of Nejd, and Instruction issued to him in regard to his Mission , 1926 (ff 516-560)
- Negotiations for revision of the 1916 Treaty with Ibn Saud
- A conference held at the Colonial Office to discuss HM Government's relations with Ibn Saud, 1926
- Relations between Ibn Saud and Persia
- Agreement with the Sultan of Nejd regarding certain questions relating to the Nejd-Trans-Jordan and Nejd-Iraq frontiers , 1925 (ff 395-402)
- The Hejaz- Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan border.
The principal correspondents are the Secretary of State for the Colonies, 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 Colonial Office, the Foreign Office, HM Consul at Jeddah, and the Viceroy.
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