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FCO 164/26

Trucial States: frontiers, 1 May 1952 - 31 May 1961

This file contains correspondence relating to the settlement of the inter-Trucial States boundaries. It includes study reports, telegrams, minutes and notes exchanged by the British Political Agents and Residents with the Foreign Office for the amicable settlement of the internal frontiers of the Trucial States.

FCO 164/16

Trucial States: frontiers around Buraimi, 1 November 1947 - 30 November 1947

This file contains a collection of extracts from Political Diaries, Muscat Administration Reports, letters, reports by Political Agents, views of Tribal Chiefs, and Sheikhs of the Trucial Coast regarding tribal allegiance, territorial claims in the area surrounding the Buraimi Oasis. It includes the description of principal places in Jau.
FCO 164/4

Trucial States: confidential undertakings with HM Government, 1 July 1911 - 31 October 1912

This file contains an English and Arabic version of the supplementary list of undertakings between the Trucial Chiefs of Oman and the British Government.

FCO 164/1

Trucial States: treaties with the UK prior to 1906, 1 January 1906 - 31 December 1906

This file contains a collection of Arabic and English copies of the treaties and engagements in force prior to 1906 between the British Government and the Trucial Chiefs of the Arab Coast.
FCO 30/3044

European political co-operation and the Middle East: Euro-Arab dialogue and Experts' Meeting, 1 January 1975 - 31 December 1975

This file contains correspondence relating to the Euro-Arab Dialogue. It includes background notes and briefs for the experts’ meetings at Abu Dhabi on 22 to 27 November 1975 and at Brussels from 23 to 24 October 1975. Some of the briefs include political affairs of the United Arab Emirates, Palestine Liberation Organisation, the Arab League, industrialisation, infrastructure, financial cooperation, agriculture, and rural development.
BT 245/798

International Air Agreements: Qatar negotiations, 1949-1952

This file contains correspondence relating to negotiations for a civil aviation agreement between the United Kingdom and Qatar. It includes summaries of meetings and a translation of a draft agreement with annexes as well as a copy of the text of a treaty between the UK and Qatar from 1916.
BT 245/795

Qatar: general matters, 1954-1963

This file contains correspondence relating to other matters of the civil aviation agreements between the United Kingdom and Qatar, focusing on the creation of various national airlines in the Gulf States.
FCO 14/591

Visit of the Ruler of Dubai and aviation law in the Persian Gulf, 1969

This file contains correspondence relating to civil aviation development in the Gulf, including but not limited to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Bahrain and Kuwait. It contains reports, meetings, and summaries of visits of British officials to the Gulf and the visit of the Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum to London.

FCO 18/2012

Original sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan, 1959

This file contains an original sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan.
FCO 18/1981

Sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan, 1959

This file contains a sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan.
FCO 18/1943

Sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan, 1959

This file contains a sketch map drawn by Julian Walker for boundary delimitation: Mushairif Tal Dohan.
FCO 18/1915

Results of the survey of the frontier between Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman: based on information supplied by Julian Walker (Copy 15 of 15), 1964

This file contains the results of the survey of the frontier between Abu Dhabi and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman: based on information supplied by Julian Walker (Copy 15 of 15).