"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٢‎٢‎٩] (٥٧٨/٢٤٦)

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as Regent and Foreign Minister, the King, accompanied by the Queen
and other members of ^he Royal family, left Kandahar early in Decem
ber, and travelled as the guest of the Government of India via Chaman,
Quetta and Karachi, to Bombay and on to Fort Said. A meeting
between the King and the Viceroy, Lord Irwin, was unfortunately pre
vented by the sudden illness of the latter at Bombay. After visiting
Egypt, Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and Switzerland, King
Amanulla and Queen Souriya were met at Dover by the Prince of Wales
on the 13th March 1928, and were State guests at Buckingham Palace
for three days, official banquets being held also at the Foreign Office
and the Guildhall. After the conclusion of the official visit, the King
visited Windsor, Oxford, Sandhurst, and many industrial centres, and
was present at naval, military and air force exercises. Leaving Eng
land on the 5th April, he returned to Germany for an operation on his
throat: and proceeded thence to Poland, Russia, Turkey and Persia,
crossing the Meshed-Herat frontier on the 22nd June and arriving in
Kabul on the 2nd July.
Shortly before leaving Afghanistan he had concluded a treaty for the
establishment of diplomatic relations with Poland (November 192T), and
an Air Agreement with Russia (November 1927* * * § ). He also concluded a
Treaty of Friendship and Security with Persia (November 1927t).
In March 1928 an Agreement^ was concluded between the aerial
departments of the Afghan and Russian Governments regarding the
details necessary to the operation of the Russo-Afghan Air Agreement of
1927.
In the course of his tour the following ten additional treaties, pacts
and protocols were concluded : —
Letto-Afghan (February 1928);
Swiss-Afghan (February 1928);
Japano-Afghan (April 1928);
Egypto-Afghan (May 1928) § ;
Turco-Afghan (May 1928)11;
Perso-Afghan (June 1928)11
Perso-Afghan (Extradition) (June 1928) ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ;
Perso-Afghan (Frontier Commission) (June 1928)tf;
Finno-Afghan (July 1928);
Liberian-Afghan (1928);
* Appendix No. X1T.
t Appendix No. XIII.
X Appendix No. XIV.
§ Appendix No. XV.
If Appendix No. XVI.
|| Appendix No. XIII (Additional Protocol).
** هذه التواريخ تقريبية See Part I, Persia, Appendix No. XXVI (Protocol),
ft Appendix No. XVII.