Dispute between Saudi Arabia and UK about Buraimi Oasis

This file relates to the dispute between Saudi Arabia and the UK over the Buraimi Oasis. It covers correspondence on:

• Record of a talk between T F Brenchley and Dr Jamil Barudi, with Barudi suggesting that Brenchley should propose that Azzam Pasha (Abdul Rahman Hasan Azzam) produce a set of proposals acceptable to the Ruler of Saudi Arabia King Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud and the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (32)
• Update on the progress of the Buraimi brief as relating to Abu Dhabi (34)
• How the question of Buraimi should be handled during the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, George Thomson's talks with King Faisal on 28 and 29 September 1965; the probability of Azzam being present and of the Buraimi question being discussed at these talks; and a letter of thanks from Thomson to Azzam. It also includes the desire of the UK Mission to the UN in New York to give the UN Secretary General an account of the talks in Taif and the Mission's proposals on refugees (36, 38, 44)
• Possible proposals for Anglo-Saudi cooperation which the Minister of State could put to King Faisal (37)
• Anglo-Saudi cooperation and Buraimi, and Sheikh Shakhbut's agreement to visits to Buraimi by a UN representative (40)
• Opening of fire by the Oman Gendarmerie on a civilian Land Rover in Buraimi, and the resolution of the situation (42)
• Harry Kern's meeting with King Faisal and Azzam (47)
• Record of a meeting between Thomson and the Saudi Arabian Ambassador Sheikh Hafiz Wahba on 8 November 1965. It includes a letter from Faisal to Thomson (48)
• Potential for a meeting between Faisal and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur if Faisal were to visit London for medical treatment (49)
• First Secretary in Bahrain M S Buckmaster's request for assistance in arriving at Qurn Jiham and Thiqbat Al Mazami in the Buraimi area, including descriptions of the surrounding areas (51)
• Survival of markers used for the Muscat-Abu Dhabi frontier in the Buraimi area and the question of their maintenance (52)
• Questions put to Thomson on steps being taken to solve the Buraimi problem (53)
• Article in The Times called 'Review of Buraimi Issue Likely: Outcome of Arms Negotiations' (54)
• Statement in the newspaper Al Hayat by the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Beirut declaring a map of the Trucial States previously published in Al Hayat to be incorrect in portraying Buraimi (57)