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THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S GOYERNMENT
EASTERN (Arabia).
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CONFIDENTIAL.
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April 30, l 1
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Section 2 .
No. 1.
Memorandum respecting the Boundaries in Arabia:
A rrangements.
[With Map.]
Aden Protectorate.
IN 1873 the Ottoman Government advanced a claim to sovereignty over
the whole of the area that had at one time been in possession of the Imams
of the Yemen, including tribal areas in South-West Arabia, with the rulers of
which the British Government were in special treaty relations, ine .britisn
Government, in reply, maintained that the rulers of these tribes were
independent. There followed a period of frequent encroachments by Turkish
authorities into the protectorate, of British representations and Turkis
assurances, and of British measures to protect the tribes until, m 1901, the
Government of India and the Ottoman Government both proposed that the
frontier should be demarcated. In 1902 frontier commissioners met and carried
out demarcation on the ground. The results were embodied m three protocols
of 1903 1904 and 1905 respectively. Formal ratification was delayed untif 1914,
the agreement arrived at in 1905 being completed and ratified m t e og o-
Turkish Convention of the 9th March, 1914. The text will be found in
C.P. 10517. Ratifications of this convention were exchanged at London on
fLp Qy«p| TllTlG 1914 •
2 After the war, the Imam of the Yemen refused to recognise the frontier
agreed upon in the 1914 convention and revived the
predecessors. A situation similar to that m the last part of the 19tl \ ce a >
subsequently prevailed, until a treaty was concluded with the Imam at Sanaa
on the 11th Februarv, 1934, which included a mutual undertaking providing
for the maintenance of the situation in regard to the frontier as it existed on
the date of signature of the treaty,( l ) and for the prevention of any violation
of this frontier pending negotiations for its final settlement. These negotiations
are to be initiated before the expiration of the present treaty which is to remain
in force for forty years. This treaty has not yet been ratified.
Persian Gulf Principalities. _
3 In March 1911 the Ottoman Government formally intimated to Mm
Majesty’s Government their wish that a precise definition might be reached as
to the respective position of the two countries, commercia 7 aI l P. * -
the Persian Gulf, His Majesty’s Government being concerned m Jiew of their
special treaty relations with the Arab rulers on the Arabian shores of the
Persian Gulf. The ensuing negotiations resulted m e sign
of the Anglo-Turkish Convention of the 29th July, 1913 (see C P L 1 ^ 5 nttoman
convention, inter alia, recognised Koweit as an antonomous aza . , ,
Empire, and established its boundaries, and contained Turkish renuncmtion of
rights in Qatar. The boundary of the Ottoman San j a o j
delimited in detail, apart from where it marched with that of Koweit, but wa
described generally in the convention as a line commencing a P ,
Persian Gulf a little to the south of Uqair, opposite the Isiand of Zakhnuniyah,
running due south into the Ruba-al-Khali desert, until i me p , • i7
after which it turned and continued in a south-westerly d^ection m a straight
line to meet Lakmat-esh-Shub, the most easterly point reached m the delimitation
of the Aden Protectorate boundary.
C) One of the conditions attached by His Majesty’s Government
conclusion of the treaty was that certain portions of the tern ory o ; .. , ' a ( j en re p 0 rted
were still in Yemeni occupation should be evacuated. e , J7, ^ tt- Maiestv’s Government
that prior to signature of the treaty this condition had been ful e^ . nrpt ^remains in the
have reserved their right to claim the district of Rubeiatem, which at present remains m the
Imam’s possession.
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