Political relations: UK

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Civil and military subsidy provided to the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman (1)
• Passing of responsibility for the civil development subsidy from the Foreign Office to the recently established Ministry of Overseas Development and the consequence that this exposes the military subsidy to scrutiny (1-3)
• Review of the Muscat subsidy for the financial years 1966-67 and 1967-68, the intention that 1967-68 should be the final year of the military subsidy and Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur's concern about relying on oil revenues from Shell. It includes a background brief, an estimate of military expenditure and an agreed minute (4-6, 8, 10-18, 20, 22, 25)
• The Sultan's payment of his additional contribution of £20,000 in accordance with the 1964 Agreed Minute (7)
• Question of British civil development assistance now that oil has been discovered in commercial quantities (23)
• Question of continuing UK commitment to the Sultanate in light of the 1958 Agreement (24)