"الملف 73/7 I (D 19) وضع الكويت، سكة حديد بغداد، والمفاوضات الأنجلو تركية في ١٩١١" [ظ‎‎٢‎٧‎٥] (٦٣١/٥٨٤)

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It would totemore be ^ ^hippl" eargoe's without the assent
formally not to impose mex dues to the fact that
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establishment of the term11 ^ , - proposed new company in the ^ tl
e constructed and controlled hy the prop , f ^ ^ arrangel „ent is adoptea, w y
nrestricted commerce of all nation. beiii pro i ou ged t0 the ^ t
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.au (tntitiioxyv. .1 railway ever ueui^ , t n .jj
"ffi UmS 6 ^tought® must be embodied
between Great Britain and Urkey alone, ^
in a convention dealing with tijesr nia a
(ii.) The respective Interests of^^
to "the respective position of the twocoumri«». ";; t t^ ment * 0 f the questions
Persian Gulf; and they s f 0 ^ t V", \r • t :' s Government are in no sense oppose I
involved sliotdd not be reached. ^ V: { ljL ( ; ; w ment The most southerly point to
lo the legitimate claims of the Turkish (^venLment. ine iVrsIail Cull ,s
which they have ever recognised such claims on Ae b toral oi ^ ^ of Xurki8h
Ojeir, in the district of I'd Katit. co<..} 'f 'j,. ottoman Minister for Foreign
power ever having been pramount; w - forma i assurances that the Sublime
Affairs conveyed to Her Majestv & Amy.. - ov ove r Bahrein, Muscat,
Porte did not entertain any intention oi obtamii ^ 1' , • ^ it ig oii] since t } iat
or the independent tribes on the coast of die . ei^an ^ ' C G t to estaldish
.IntP that pertain attempts have been made by the Ottoman Uovernmeni iu r y
The position of His Majesty s Government in regaid to ■ . „ .o,,-. t!
entirely different. With Bahrein they have had direct rela ions s n _ 1 ' ,
relations have found concrete expression in a series of treaties lati g . _ - • .
having as their objects the suppression of piracy and the fcla\e tra le , ■ „■■■■ •- ,
of the succession to the throne ; the protection oi the island against toreign aggression ;
and the safety of the pearl industry, of which Bahrein is the centre. In Muscat
and the territories of the Trucial Chiefs His Majesty's Government have, m vMimj
of various treaties and agreements, conferred similar benefits for many years ; am
their policy in each case has been inspired by the importance of upholding the
maritime peace, of securing open markets to the commerce oi ali countries, ami
of protecting the long-established interests of Pntish-Indian subjects.
His Majesty's Government cannot acquiesce in any arrangement \\hich might
restrict or undermine the authority which they have exercised uiiinlcrni11etlK
with such beneficent results; they conceive that any extension ol 1 urkish jurisdiction
along the littoral of the Persian Gulf to the south of Ojeir would be prejudicial to
those results and unsupported by any legitimate claims of Turkish sovereignty ; ami
they have accordingly resisted any attempts which have been made to encroach upon
these regions. They are therefore of opinion that any lasting settlement between
| the two Powers must provide for the definite renunciation by the Ottoman Gover •
W ment of Bahrein and adjacent islands and of the whole of the Peninsula of K! Katr
| (including El Bidaa), where the Sheikh of Bahrein has important rights; and ihey
consider that such a settlement would finally remove a perennial source oi local
I: friction.
The Ottoman Government express a wish to regularise the relations of Koweit
towards the Ottoman Empire, and His Majesty's Government will gladly contribute
to such a solution, on the understanding that their rights and claims are not to be
regarded as prejudiced by any proposals which may now be put forward, should such ■" *
proposals prove abortive.
As the Ottoman Government are aware. His Majesty's Government have never
admitted that Koweit is under 1 urkish protection, and, inasmuch as some divergence
oi opinion was manifested between the two Governments as to the position there a
MGdus Vivendi was reached in September 1901 by His Majesty's Government conseiit-
ing to give an assurance that, provided the Turkish Government abstained from