IOR/L/PS/10/1166/2

There is a small amount of Foreign Office and India Office correspondence relating to the opening of formal treaty negotiations in November 1926 between the British Government and Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz and Sultan of Nejd [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd], with a view to concluding a revised friendship treaty. It includes the following: a British revised draft treaty and negotiating instructions; discussions about the early, temporary suspension of negotiations over the refusal of the British Government to relinquish its rights to manumit slaves in the Hejaz; and a report from the British Resident in the Persian Gulf to the Colonial Office, about the territorial encroachments into Trucial Oman and other parts of Eastern Arabia by Ibn Saud and the Amir of Hasa.

The correspondence is followed by a copy of the Final report of the delegates of India to the seventh (ordinary) session of the Assembly of the League of Nations, dated 1926. It contains the text of the Slavery Convention agreed at the Assembly and referred to in the correspondence.