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FO 371/185381

Ports, harbours and shipping, 1966

This file relates to ports, harbours and shipping in Oman.
FO 464/17

Arabia: miscellaneous papers, 1962-1968, 1962 Jan 01 - 1968 Dec 31

This file contains Orders in Council relating to Arabia and the Gulf from 1962-1967. In particular it relates to: Muscat, Qatar, Aden, the Trucial States and Bahrain. These orders cover topics including: Amendments of orders, transfers of jurisdiction, airports, aviation, pharmaceutical regulations, customs duties, finance, commerce, ports, traffic, currency, immigration, doctors, alcohol, drugs, pesticides, the Trucial Oman Scouts, labour, police, patents, leasing of land, prisons, criminal procedure, explosives and contract law.

FCO 8/790

Armed forces, 1967-1968

This file contains the reports of the UK's Defence Attaché in Saudi Arabia C S Fitzpatrick; his annual reports for 1966 and 1967; and his monthly reports February to April 1967 and September 1967 to February 1968.
FCO 8/911

Illegal immigration into Trucial States, 1967-1968

This file concerns the flow of migrants from India, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Oman, Somalia, Ethiopia, Palestine and elsewhere arriving illegally by dhow on the Trucial Coast and efforts to restrict this.
FCO 8/565

Israeli aircraft and Bahrain flight information, 1967-1968

This file relates to civil aviation in Bahrain.
FO 1016/835

Trucial States: fishing industry, 1965 Jan 01 - 1965 Dec 31

This file contains correspondence relating to: Visit by Group Captain M M A Cheema of the Associated Fisheries Corporation Karachi to Dubai and Bahrain to establish a fishing industry at the former as a joint venture with local interests; and the establishment by Cheema of the Arabian Sea Transport and Fisheries Corporation Visit of the Chief Fisheries Officer of the Fisheries Department in Aden V T Hinds to Dubai at the invitation of the Ruler Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum and Hind's subsequent flights to, and consultations in Bahrain, Ras Al Khaimah, Sharjah and Muscat.
FO 1016/551

Internal political situation: Bahrain, 1957

This file relates to the internal political situation in Bahrain.
FO 1016/102

Report on visit to Kuria Muria, 1951 Aug 8-Sept 21

This file contains the Political Agent's account, in the form of an extract from the Aden Fishery Report, of his visit to the Kuria Muria [Khuriya Muriya] Islands, where islanders 'proudly displayed [the] Union Jack'. The main object of the visit was to complete the preliminary survey of the fishing possibilities off the southern coast of Arabia and it provides a general impression of the islands and their inhabitants.

FO 371/168938

Queen's Regulations for port of Das Island, 1963

This file contains: Draft Queen's regulation for the port of Das Island, along with notes and comments.
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 371/156693

Arms Smuggling in Persian Gulf, 1961

This file contains correspondence relating to: Arms smuggling in the Gulf and the legality of the Royal Navy carrying out arrests of suspected crews (1) The agreement of Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan for the Abu Dhabi Police to cooperate with the Trucial Oman Scouts in anti-arms smuggling operations (2) Arms smuggling from the United Arab Republic to the Aden Protectorate (3) A meeting with Sheikh Saqr Bin Mohammad Al Qasimi the Ruler of Ras Al Khaimah, in which the Ruler agreed to cooperate with the anti-smuggling operations of the Trucial Oman Scouts in the Howeilat [Huway