File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 1846/1912 Pt 1-2 'Turkey in Asia: Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission'
- Date:
- 1912/1914
- Description:
- Abstract: This file contains correspondence and draft agreements relating to the establishment of the Shatt al Arab Riverain Commission in Ottoman Iraq. The files discuss the Commission's proposed functions on regulating trade and traffic at the Shatt al Arab estuary, but mostly discuss the governing conventions of the Commission and its independence from local Turkish Authorities.The correspondence is mainly between British authorities at the India Office and various British diplomatic missions writing from the capitals of the various European powers involved in talks on the establishment of the Commission in question. Significantly, the papers discuss the possibility of internationalising the Shatt al Arab waterway. However, in view of the fact that the Ottoman claim to the waterway was indisputable, British authorities opted for stronger Imperial Ottoman rather than local Ottoman control over the Commission's activities so as to ostensibly ensure fair treatment of international vessels navigating the Shatt al Arab.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 323; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Canal navigation and inland waterways legislation
River navigation
Diplomacy - Geographic region:
- Iraq
Shatt al Arab - Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000a5_ar
81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0000a5_en
IOR/L/PS/10/272
IOR/L/PS/10/272