‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’

Title:

‘1/1 Volume VI Kuwait Saudi Relations’

Date:

1938/1939

Description:

Abstract: Correspondence and papers concerning negotiations finalising trade, Bon Voisinageand extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, in an effort to lift the trade blockade, imposed upon Kuwait at the orders of the of King of Saudi Arabia, ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd (Ibn Sa‘ūd). The volume is a direct chronological continuation of ‘1/1 Volume V Koweit Saudi Relations’ (IOR/R/15/5/113), and includes:Multiple drafts in both Arabic and English of a trade agreement, and Bon Voisinageand extradition treaties between Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.Correspondence amongst British officials regarding the finalisation of the wording of the various agreements and treaties, including modifications demanded by the Ruler of Kuwait and Saudi Government.Discussion amongst British officials of changes in Ibn Saud’s attitude towards the Rulers of Kuwait and Bahrain, and Ibn Saud’s response to the development of closer ties between Kuwait and Iraq.The volume’s principal correspondents are: the Kuwait Political Agent (Captain Gerald Simpson DeGaury; Major Arnold Crawshaw Galloway); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard William Craven Fowle); the British Government’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia (Reader William Bullard); the Ruler of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ); India Office representatives in London (Roland Tennyson Peel; John Percival Gibson); Foreign Office representatives in London (Lacy Baggallay); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 246; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the first and last leading and ending flyleaves.An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 4-243; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Bilateral relations
Treaties
Trade agreements
King of Saudi Arabia

Geographic region:

Saudi Arabia

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00003d_ar
81055/vdc_100000000831.0x00003d_en
IOR/R/15/5/114
IOR/R/15/5/114

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