ملف ٢٢\٢٣ III مؤتمر الكويت [و‎‎٣‎٧] (٢٠٠/٧٣)

time *nd he also told the lrani> Jordanian envoys ihst the Najada
undertake to accept a plebiscite in the *adi Sirh^n provided that
hie Majesty hing Husain agrees to a Eimilar plebiscite ior huraa
and *uraba. It was arranged that one further meeting would be
held on the 27th oi Mrirch to pass today’e proceedings and that
the Conference would then adjourn sine die to await news Irom
cith-r *rans Jordan!a,Baghdad or Riyadh. It is evident th^t the
whole crux of the question between Irans Jord&nia and Iraq turns
on the tadi Sirhan and the &ttdi Sirh n alone.
b. 1 would conclude the account of the proceedings of
the 26th karch with a note that it is remarkable th t neither
party showed the slightest enthusiasm ior a buffer state under
Kuri ash Ch&’alan. I have already dwtlt ?ibove on the attitude oi
the ‘i’rans-Jordanian envoys. The bajd envoys in their turn poured
u scorn on the proposal but based it rather on the personality of
the proposed ruler. They declare that he was utterly unreliable,
offered allegiance to each party in turn Hajd, Trans Jordania.the
French in Cyria and Baghdad and repudiated that allegiance whenever
it was Inconvenient in hit own interest. s o result oi .v,, ; i-
proceedings,i have come to the conclusion that,even ii it it
possible to form a cuffor state of any kind, it will not do to
leave hurl ash Sha’alan in charge. I am of course not suflioiently
acquainted with local pdlitics in that part of the world to put
forward any alternative proposal fox tht constitution of a cuifer
mate and I do not think that there is much hope of useful
guidance from the pl*nipot«nti*ri*s in the present, state oi aifairs
if matter*: oomc to a plebiscite, presumably the people oJ the Wadi
as Sirhaa will have to sta^e whether they prefer
( 1 ) The Sultan of H jd
(2) The Amir Abdulla
(3) A division between the two competitors n med above
4 ', a buffer state whose independence both parties a^rc* to
respect•
a corollary to prop.al four preeumally a comtiunt