Political relations between Persian Gulf states and UK: Anglo-US talks on policy in Persian Gulf

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Conversation between P McKearney and Khulusi Khayri and Edward Atiya of the Arab Development Society and the latter two's first impressions of Abu Dhabi and Doha (21)
• Minute by R S Crawford on Anglo-US discussion of issues relating to oil and the Gulf; a conversation between Hermann Eilts and A R Walmsley on the proposed discussions; a minute by Walmsley on the bilateral meeting and lunch hosted by Sir R B Stevens; a request to the Ministry of Defence for possible comments on the draft brief for discussions; the possible attendance of delegates from the Colonial Office and the Ministry of Power; agreement with the US State Department on the extreme confidentiality of the discussions (23-28)
• Draft brief by the Foreign Office for Anglo-US discussions on 23-24 April 1963. It includes: the 'Persian Gulf Policy Summary'; an annex on the defensive posture in the Gulf; 'Comments on State Department Planning Paper Oil and Inter-dependence in the Middle East'; a conversation between Walmsley and Eilts on further issues discussed on 26 April 1963 (29)
• Views of the Shadow Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker on the Middle East and Aden (30)