Discussions at UN about Oman

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• UN general debate on the question of Oman and the request by the Indian delegation to postpone voting until 4 December 1961 (101)
• Conclusion of the Special Political Committee's debate on the Oman question, details of voting, and the expected progress of the resolution to a Plenary Session. It includes cuttings from The Times, Daily Telegraph, and Daily Mail from 5 December 1961 (102)
• Analysis of voting in the Political Committee and the necessity of lobbying; the telegram responses to representations made to the foreign ministries of Nepal, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Iran, Mexico, Sri Lanka, India, Argentina, Ghana and Cyprus; an urgent request for instructions by the Chilean delegation for the Plenary Session (103-105, 107)
• Transmission of provisional summaries of the debates to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur via the Political Residency in the Persian Gulf (106)
• Statement of the Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the UN Ahmad Shukairy before the Sixteenth General Assembly (108)
• Statement of protest by the Sultan circulated at the UN General Assembly (109)
• Provisional summary records of the meetings of the Special Political Committee, held from 27 November-4 December 1961 (110-116)
• Comments of the Yugoslavian spokesman about the sovereignty of Oman. It also contains an article titled 'Oil and Independence', published in Borba on 4 December 1961 (117)
• Report of the Special Political Committee on the question of Oman by Shintaro Fukushima (118)
• Request for information about the Greek representative's vote at the Special Political Committee (119)
• Vote on the question of Oman at the Plenary Session and the breakdown of the votes (120)
• Report by the UK Mission on the debates of the Special Political Committee on the Oman question (121)
• Provisional verbatim record of the Plenary Meeting of the UN General Assembly on 14 December 1961 (122)
• Parliamentary question from Judith Hart to the Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath (123)
• HMG's representations to the Government of Burma regarding the Oman question at the UN (124)
• Summary of the hearing of the Oman item by the UN General Assembly at the Special Committee and Plenary Session (125)
• HMG's representations to the Government of Nepal regarding the Oman question and their reactions (126)
• Possibility of remonstration with Iranian authorities over their votes at the UN (127)
• Suggestion that a complaint should be made to the UN regarding a reference in a document to the Imamate of Oman as a state (128)