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CO 727/2

Offices: Foreign., 1921, July - Dec.

This bound volume of Colonial Office correspondence with the Foreign Office relates to ‘Arabia’, especially the affairs of the King of Hejaz Hussein Bin Ali Al Hashemi.
FCO 8/1760

Visit of Prince Fahd of Saudi Arabia to UK, September, October 1971, 1971 Jan 01-1971 Dec 31

This file relates to the visit to the UK of the Saudi Arabian Minister of the Interior and Second Deputy Prime Minister Prince Fahd Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud.
FCO 8/1657

Political relations between Kuwait and United Arab Republic, 1971 Jan 01-1971 Dec 31

This file contains correspondence and newspaper cuttings from the Kuwait Times relating to a visit to Kuwait by United Arab Republic President Anwar Sadat, on his way to Moscow in October 1971. During formal discussions with the Ruler of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah the principal topic was the Arab-Israeli dispute. This file also contains correspondence and press extracts relating to: A visit to Kuwait by Hasan Sabri El Khouli in March 1971 A visit to Cairo by Kuwait Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah

FCO 8/677

UK commitment to 1970/1971, 1967-1968

This file contains correspondence concerning: Minutes of the 62nd meeting of the Planning Committee on defence expenditure studies for the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), relating to Cyprus, the Gulf, Sharjah and Kuwait Paper on 'The Kuwait Commitment in the Period to 1970-71' to be circulated at the meeting Telegram from Ambassador G N Jackson to M S Weir on the Kuwait commitment Letter from Jackson to T F Brenchley on HMG's commitment to the defence of Kuwait, including views of the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al Salem Al Sabah, Prime Minister Sheikh Jabir Al Ahmad Al Sabah and Minist
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.