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Economic development programme for Trucial States, 1955

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit by Mohammad Bakhit Saghir to Doha, Sharjah and Dubai. He arrived with a Lebanese passport, but no visa. Allegedly acting on behalf of Sadaka Kaki, founder of the Economic and Engineering Company Limited, he met the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi. He proposed many development schemes, but provided no details.

FO 371/114596

Political relations between Egypt and the Trucial States: unauthorised visit by Colonel Saadat and Egyptian diplomats to Persian Gulf Islamic Conference at Mecca, Gulf rulers discouraged from attending, 1955

This file contains correspondence relating to: Unexpected visit of Anwar Sadat to Doha to inform the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani of the Islamic Conference to be held in Mecca after the pilgrimage (1) Islamic Congress Charter [enclosed] and Britain's desire to discourage Gulf Rulers from sending representatives because of its thinly veiled political aims (2, 4, 8) Rumours that King Saud may present a Convair aircraft to the Ruler of Qatar (3) The Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur's indignation that the Egyptian First Secretary Ali Khashaba

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Economic development programme for Trucial States, 1955

Political relations between Egypt and the Trucial States: unauthorised visit by Colonel Saadat and Egyptian diplomats to Persian Gulf Islamic Conference at Mecca, Gulf rulers discouraged from attending, 1955