Discussions at UN about Oman

This file relates to the Oman question at the UN. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Plans for discussion of the Oman question at the UN from the UK Mission to the UN (81)
• Attitude of Pakistan on Oman (82)
• G H Middleton’s request for a copy of the Herbert de Ribbing’s report for his discussion with Argentina (83)
• Morocco’s involvement as a signatory for the demand for inscription of Oman at the UN; the activities of the Imam of Oman Ghalib Bin Ali (84)
• Letter from the MP Robert Edwards from the Committee for the Rights of Oman, circulated amongst the Members of the Fourth Committee at the UN (85-86)
• de Ribbing’s report on his visit to the Sultanate (87)
• Prospects for voting on the question of Oman in the eighteenth General Assembly (88)
• Review of the Oman question and HMG’s attitude towards the rebels (89)
• Information required for the debate on Muscat and Oman at the UN, in relation to a memorandum produced by the Committee for the Rights of Oman. It also includes comment on the veracity of the information and the work of Faris Glubb as well as slavery in the region (90)
• Situation of fuel and currency in Dhofar in terms of British monopolies; the BBC’s Summary of World Broadcasts report on the region (91)
• Edwards’s document on allegations of British atrocities in Oman, which has been sent to the UN with the object of distracting from the de Ribbing report (92)
• Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ interest in the de Ribbing report (93)
• Article in the Baltimore Sun on British involvement in Oman (94)
• Note by the Secretary General of the UN U Thant and the need for copies in French and Spanish for various British offices (95)
• Brief for the question of Oman at the UN prepared by the Foreign Office (96)
• One Khartoum newspaper report El Rai El Ayam’s report on Edwards’s allegations of British atrocities (97)
• British Embassy in Tokyo’s discussion on Oman and the denial of a colonial situation there (98)
• Mention of the question of Oman at NATO (99)
• Arrangements for the dispatch of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur’s telegram (100)