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Coll 7/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: suggested Anglo-Persian Arms Traffic Agreement. Persia and the Arms Traffic Convention'
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The volume consists of extensive correspondence, plus minutes and memoranda, relating to the 1925 Convention for the Supervision of the International Trade in Arms and Ammunition and in Implements of War (Arms Traffic Convention), and the subsequent attempts to reproduce certain of its provision...
Final Record of a Meeting Held at the Foreign Office on Thursday October 5th [1933] to Discuss Relations between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom and the Sheikh of Koweit
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This is a printed memorandum containing a record of a meeting held at the Foreign Office on 5 October 1933 to discuss relations between Great Britain and the Sheikh of Koweit [Kuwait], Aḥmad bin Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, particularly in regards to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Aziz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān Āl Sa‘ūd]. The ...
The Dispute Between Persia and Muscat Regarding the Renewal of the Lease of Bunder Abbass and its Dependencies
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 125 of 1868, dated 1 August 1868, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-23, dated 1 June-30 July 1868. The enclosures relate to the dispute between Persia [Iran] and Muscat regarding th...
Steps Taken to Prevent the Recurrence of Grievances that Lead to Complaints by the Resident at Bushire Against Persian Officials
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 20 of 1869, dated 12 January 1869, including an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-5, dated 28 September-22 December 1868. The enclosures comprise letters from Sir Charles Alison, HM Minister in Pe...
The Alleged Repeated Encroachments of Persia in the Direction of the Frontiers of Afghanistan, Seistan, Khelat and Mekran
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Despatch from the Foreign Department, Government of India, to the Secretary of State for India, No. 85 of 1869, dated 16 March 1869, with an abstract and enclosures numbered 3-40 dated 15 December 1864-15 March 1869. In this despatch the Secretary of State for India is addressed by the Governme...
Anglo-Persian Relations in Connection with the Persian Attack on Herat and the British Field Force at Karrack
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This item comprises a copy of [extracts of] an enclosure to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee: Bombay Secret Letter No. 25 of 1838, dated 10 September 1838. Annotated ‘Received via Marseilles 26 October 1838’. The letters in the enclosure are date...
Affairs in Aden and its Hinterland, the Gulf of Aden, and the Lower Part of the Red Sea Coast
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This part of the volume consists of copies of enclosures to a despatch from the Government of Bombay Secret Department to the Secret Committee, Number 32 of 1842, dated 31 March 1842. The enclosures are dated 24 February to 31 March 1842. They consist of a general report by the Political Agent a...
‘Intention of the Persian Government to send an expedition against Bahrein and the removal of the Coal Depot from Karrack’
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Enclosure nos. 2-4 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 28 September 1844. The enclosures are dated 3 August-4 September 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to: the closure of the British Coal Depot on Karrack [Kharg] and arrangeme...
‘Complaint preferred by the Persian Government, that Persian Merchants have been prevented by the authorities in India from purchasing military stores’
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Enclosure nos. 2-7 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay [Mumbai], dated 30 November 1844. The enclosures are dated 3 August-5 November 1844. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to a complaint by the Foreign Minister of Persia [Iran] that author...
‘Arrival at Karrachee of Mahomed Ali Khan, a Persian Prince, & the information obtained in regard to his Mission’
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Enclosure nos. 2-5 to a despatch from the Secret Department, Government of Bombay, dated 20 May 1848. The enclosures are dated 22 April-20 May 1848. The enclosures consist of copies of correspondence relating to the arrival at Karrachee [Karachi] of Mahomed Ali Khan [Muḥammad ‘Alī Khān, also ...