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FO 371/99703

Anglo-Saudi aviation concerns, 1952

This file contains correspondence relating to Anglo-Saudi Arabia negotiations for landing and other concessions at Saudi airports; pilgrim flights to Jeddah; attempts to regulate the pilgrim traffic; agreement for Aden Airways to be sole carriers of British traffic during 1953 pilgrimage, and some violations of the regulations in the Saudi Arabia airport.
FCO 8/3709

Relations between Iraq and other Arab states, 1980 Jan 01 - 1980 Dec 31

This file concerns Iraq’s foreign relations with the Arab world, particularly its improving relations with Jordan.
FCO 8/5841

External political affairs of Kuwait, 1985 Jan 01 - 1985 Dec 31

This file concerns Kuwait’s external political affairs. It contains correspondence and memoranda on: The Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the Archbishop of Canterbury Terry Waite’s efforts to secure the release of four US hostages being held in Lebanon after the 1983 Kuwait bombings.
FCO 8/683

Overseas visits by ruler, 1967-1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: Plans of the Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah to travel directly from the Arab League Summit Conference in Khartoum to Paris for a 10-day medical checkup Medical checkup of Sheikh Sabah at the American Hospital of Paris, courtesy call on General Charles de Gaulle and departure on his personal Hawker Siddeley Trident for Beirut Return of Sheikh Sabah to Kuwait without visiting Amman and Baghdad as earlier planned Visit by the Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) Dr Manouchehr Eqbal to Kuwait and a report
FO 371/168620

Internal political situation: Persian Gulf and Arabian Peninsula, 1963

This file contains correspondence relating to: Intention of the People's Socialist Party (PSP), political party of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), to establish bureaus in Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Ghana, the UK and the US (21) Shaykhan Al Habashi of the South Arabian League's lobbying of the US delegation at the UN to obtain support for the early independence of the Federation of South Arabia (22) TMemoranda by Sayyed Abdulla Alawi Al Jifri [Algifri] on South Arabia (23) Press conference by Abdulla Al Asnag [Asnaj] on the current state of Aden (24) Offer by Ali Saeed Al Qaysi [Qais
FO 371/126998

School teachers for Persian Gulf, 1957

This file contains correspondence relating to: Search for additional schoolteachers in Arab capitals for Kuwait and the Trucial Coast. It provides figures of present teaching staff employed in Kuwait and discusses the itinerary of the selection board (1) BBC and press reports that Egyptian, Syrian and Soviet embassies have been implicated in election riots in Lebanon.