ملف ١٩٢٢/٥٢٢، جزء ٧ "البحرين: المطالبة الفارسية بالسيادة عليها؛ مفاوضات المعاهدة الفارسية ١٩٢٩-١٩٣٠" [و‎‎٥‎٢‎٨] (١١٢٦/١٠٦٠)

Minute Paper.
POLITICAL
Department.
.06
^rom the separate submission made on
P. 2603/29, it will be seen that the Foreigi Offii
contemplate tne inclusion in a single instrument of
as many items as possible of those which have been or
Yiiil be under discussion between Persia and His
Majesty’s Government in connection with the present
negotiations. The principle of a balance sheet has
been accepted, and the Foreign Office have now asked
that the India Office should be asked to draw up their
d esiderata as regards the renunciation of the Persian
claim to Bahrein "in the form of treaty provisions,
bearing in mind that it may possibly be desirable so to
word the Treaty that Persia may be debarred in future
from taking the line that she has never recognised the
independent* of the Arab Sheikhs concerned".
A. fujvUE Pert IQ ffp fffkf 'BAttlZtfy
■?' Our international position in regard to
Bahrein is, so far as treaties go, that we control
the foreign relations of the Sheikh, who is not
allowed by his engagements to us to receive any
foreign representative. He is further bound
abstain from and put down slavery ana. piracy. In
practice we have an effective conorol of his internal
administration. The present nominal ruling oneikh
Isa - was appointed by us in 1868, when we ioicog. uis
predecessor to abdicate. -He was himseli foiced in
1923, consequent on a long period of misgovemment, oo
agree to the substitution, as effective ruler of
Bahrein (with the style of deputy ruler) of his eldest
son. SB fully recognise# that if tiejiaake* trouble&e*
Fill suffer. On the other hand, we have no real locus
standi internationally as regards the interna:
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