"ملف ٦/٤ I الحدود الكويتية-العراقية" [و‎‎٧‎٣] (٧٥١/١٥٤)

copy of which is, I understand in the library of His Majesty 1 s
Embassy* The first of these Conventions w s never ratified
but the boundary line laid down in Article 11 thereof was
definitely adopted by Article 5 of the second Convention, the
ratifications of which were exchanged in London on the 3rd
¥ June, 1914. His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom
have not had occasion to discuss with King Ibn Laud, since
he acquired independent sovereignty over Nejd and the Rasa
Coast, the question of the precise boundary between his
dominions and those of the Arab rulers in the Persian Gulf,
who are in special treaty rela tions with His Majesty’s Govern
ment although Ibn Laud has, by article 6 of the Treaty of Jedda
of the 20th May 1927 formally recognised those special relations
and undertaken to maintain friendly relations with the rulers
concerned. But the fact that certain territories on the Ottoman
side of 1913/14 line have now become independent States, cannot
be regarded in the view of His ffaje sty’s Government as in any
way affecting the status of the territories on the other side
of that line, which were then and still remain under British
inlfuence. His Majesty’s Government therefore still regard
the 1913/14 line as forming the boundary between the Ottoman
Succession State of Saudi Arabia and the territories of south
eastern Arabia with which the}/ are in special relations.
3. Having regard to the presence of United States oil interests
in this area it is important that the United States Government
should be under no misanprehe nsi on on this point. H£ is
i^lesirable therefore that th^r should receive as full an account
as possible of the position of His Majesty’s Government in the
matter without delay, and should not be left to obtain possibly
misleading information from the Turkish or Saudi Arabian
Governments. I shall be glad, therefore, if you will arrange,
as soon as possible for the United States Embassy at nngora(a)
to be furnished with a copy of the Anglo Turkish Convention of
the 29th July 19 13, and (b) to be shown the text of the Anglo
Turkish Convention of the 9th March 1914 (Aitchison, /l.^I 1933)
pages 42 onwards). It should be pointed out to the United
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