File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎83r] (159/558)

P ERST A—NO. XXI—1907.
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geographical position, has a special interest in the maintenance of the status qu^
in the external relations of Thibet, have made the following arrangement
Article 1.
The two High Contracting Parties engage to respect the territorial integrity
of Thibet and to abstain from all interference in the internal administration.
• Article 2.
In conformity with the admitted principle of the suzerainty of China over
Thibet, Great Britain and Russia engage not to enter into negotiations with Thi
bet except through the intermediary of the Chinese Government. This engage
ment does not exclude the direct relations between British Commercial Agents
and the Thibetan authorities provided for in Article V of the Convention between
Great Britain and Thibet of the 7th September 1904, and confirmed by the Con
vention between Great Britain and China of the 27th Aprd 1906 ; nor does it
modify the engagements entered into by Great Britain and China in Article
of the said Convention of 1906.
It is clearly understood that Budhists, subjects of Great Britain or of Russia,
may enter into direct relations on strictly religious matters with the Dalai Lama
and the other representatives of Budhism in Thibet; the Governments of Great
Britain and Russia engage, as far as they are concerned, not to allow those rela
tions to infringe the stipulations of the present engagement.
Article 3.
The British and Russian Governments respectively engage not to send Re
presentatives to Lhassa.
Article 4.
The two High Contracting Parties engage neither to seek nor to obtain, whether
for themselves or their subjects, any Concessions for railways, roads, telegraphs,
and mines, or other rights in Thibet.
Article 5.
The two Governments agree that no part of the revenues of Thibet, whether
in kind or in cash, shall be pledged or assigned to Great Britain or Russia or to
any of their subjects.
Annex to the Arrangement between Great Britain and Russia concerning Thibet.
Great Britain reaffirms the Declaration, signed by His Ezccllency the Viceroy
and Governor-General of. India and appended to the ratification of the Cm
of the 7th September 1904, to the effect that the occupation of the Chumbi alley