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FCO 8/5482

External political affairs of Kuwait, 1984 Jan 01 - 1984 Dec 31

This file concerns Kuwait’s foreign relations.
FCO 8/2121

Visit of Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum, to UK, 28-30 November 1973, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file relates to a visit to London by the Saudi Arabian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Wealth Sheikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani and the Algerian Minister of Industry and Energy M Belaid Abdesselam. This visit was part of a tour of Western capitals to explain the Arab viewpoint on the oil resolutions adopted in two meetings held by Arab oil ministers. The two resolutions involve the reduction of oil production and an embargo on the US and Netherlands as a result of support for Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
FCO 8/1971

Use of oil as political weapon by Persian Gulf states, 1973 Jan 01 - 1973 Dec 31

This file is part B of a sequence that contains correspondence and press reports relating to the reduction of oil production by the Arab States and embargoes on the US and the Netherlands in response to support for Israel in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
FCO 8/63

Saudi Arabia/Bahrain continental shelf de-limitation agreement, 1967-1968

This file relates to the Saudi Arabia-Bahrain Continental Shelf Delimitation Agreement, 1958. It contains: Correspondence between Francis Vallat and lawyer Eli Lauterpacht of Cambridge University regarding the confidentiality of associated maps Correspondence between T F Brenchley and Abbas Aram of the Iranian Embassy regarding the sovereignty of certain islands, Views of West Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands on the principle of lines of equidistance, with observations by Professor Sir Humphrey Waldock of Oxford University