UK aid: Trucial States Development Fund

This file concerns development programmes in the Trucial States. It contains correspondence on:

• Transfer of responsibility for the Trucial States Development Scheme (TSDS) to the Ministry of Overseas Development (ODM). It includes a draft political brief and a draft memorandum on the administration of assistance to the Trucial States, prepared for ODM, and lists of TSDS projects and UK-based staff (4, 53, 80)
• Plans of the Arab League to provide development aid to the Trucial States and to open a development office for this purpose and UK efforts to prevent this (5, 23, 62, 83-84, 86)
• Suggestion that the Abu Dhabi Petroleum Company Limited (ADPC) be approached to provide development aid (5, 26)
• Plans for the Trucial States Council to set up a Trucial States Development Office (TSDO) and a Trucial States Development Fund (TSDF), through which all aid would be channelled and administered (6, 21, 24, 28, 42)
• Proposal to appoint an Arab director as head of the TSDO (14, 18, 25, 28, 30, 43, 54)
• Plans for British contributions to the TSDF (18, 21, 35, 47, 62, 68)
• Contributions of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan to the TSDF (22, 32, 36, 48, 75, 87)
• Efforts to obtain contributions to the TSDF from other Gulf states, in particular Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia (31, 33, 37, 48, 72, 87, 90)
• Consideration of the possible projects that could be embarked on using the TSDF (38)
• Reports of interviews given by the Kuwaiti Minister of Information Sheikh Jabir Al Ali Al Sabah to newspapers in Egypt, in which he commented on the TSDF (73)
• Revised estimate for the Secretariat Head of the 1965-66 TSDS budget (88)