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FCO 8/577

Kuria Muria Islands, 1967-1968

This file relates to sovereignty of the Kuria Muria [Khuriya Muriya] Islands. It contains correspondence concerning: Claim of the newly formed South Yemen to the islands, which HMG handed over to the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman in a Treaty of Cession signed on 15 November 1967 Question of oil concessions Possibility of an armed clash; and the question of British forces helping the Sultan defend the islands Parliamentary question by Eldon Griffiths regarding the will of the islands' inhabitants Press reports and broadcasts from The Times and the Voice of the Arabs

FO 371/148877

Oil in Persian Gulf, 1960

This file contains correspondence relating to: Contract between the Arabian Oil Company Limited of Japan and the Seacat Offshore Drilling Company of the US to drill for oil in the Saudi Arabian-Kuwaiti Neutral Zone beginning next June.
FO 371/179775

British oil interests in Persian Gulf, 1965

This file contains: Minute on the oil resources of Kuwait and Abu Dhabi and the implications for UK policy in the region. It also contains an annex and additional correspondence regarding the possible effects of Abu Dhabi's increasing output for British defence policy (6) Correspondence on the question of updating agreements relating to oil concessions, so that they are no longer made between HMG and the oil companies and no longer contain defence or telecommunications clauses.
FO 371/114641

Claims by Persia to Bahrain and Gulf islands of Abu Musa and Tamb: dispute between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia over sovereignty over islands in the Neutral Zone, 1955

This file contains correspondence relating to: Conversation between the British Resident in the Persian Gulf B A B Burrows and the Saudi Arabian Government on: the Buraimi arbitration agreement; the sovereignty of islands claimed by Kuwait and the Saudis; the issue of a proclamation regarding the seabed of the Kuwait-Saudi Neutral Zone and the determination of the frontiers of that zone (24) Persian [Iranian] claim to the islands of Bahrain and Abu Musa (25-26) Admiralty's views on the territorial dispute between Iran and Bahrain and its requirement to install temporary radio ai