"ملف ٦/٤ II الحدود الكويتية-العراقية" [و‎‎٢‎٠‎٦] (٤٤٠/٤١١)

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(176/2/49)
PERSIAN GULF RESIDENCY
BAHRAIN,
18th February, 1S49.
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Dear Chancery,
We have the following comments to make on
Colonel Sargon^ suggestions enumerated in your letter
(754/5/48) of the 17th November, 1948.
--5.67
1 and 2. These suggestions will be complied
with whenever possible which is not
likely to be often.
3. In present circumstances, we consider
it preferable, as we see you do, that
the Political Agency should address the
Basrah Consulate-General and not the
Iraqi police authorities.
4. We see no objection to this on the
assumption that you would be in a
position to deal with any objections
raised by the Iraqi authorities.
5. We do not like this proposal at all
and are doubtful whether the Iraq
authorities would be willing to
reciprocate.
2. Generally speaking, we agree that the Political
Agency should ordinarily inform the Basrah Consulate-
General direct in the first instance of all frontier
incidents for such enquiries and action as may be possible,
leaving it to be decided at a later stage whether any
particular incident should be taken up at a higher level
or not. We propose however to leave it to the discretion of
the Political Agent to report an incident to this Residency
in the first place rather than tc the Basrah- Consulate-
General if he has special grounds for prefering this procedure
2. We are sending a copy of this letter to the Kuwait
Political agency for guidance and to the Basrah Consulate-
General for information.
Yours ever,
RESIDENCY•
The Chancery,
The British Embassy,
Baghdad.