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BT 245/799

International Air Agreements: Qatar negotiations, 1952-1960

This file contains correspondence relating to negotiations for a civil aviation agreement between the United Kingdom and Qatar. It includes air naviation, traffic and other regulations as well as Arabic documents, reports, meeting summaries and memoranda.

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.
FCO 14/590

Visit of the Ruler of Dubai and aviation law in the Persian Gulf, 1968 Jan 01 to 1969 Dec 31

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, meeting summaries, draft agreements 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 8/1153

Qatar and Iran median line, 1968 Jan 01-1968 Dec 31

This file relates to an agreement signed by Qatar and Iran on 20 September 1968, concerning their continental shelf boundary, based on an 'agreed minute' from 1966 between the UK and Iran.
FCO 8/914

Political affairs: Union of Arab Emirates, 1968 Jan 01-1968 Dec 31

This file concerns implemention of the nine-state Union of Arab Emirates (consisting of Bahrain, Qatar and the Trucial States) which had been agreed on in February 1968.
FO 1016/219

Petroleum Concessions Limited Qatar concession, 1952

This file relates to the concession agreement between Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited (PDQ), Petroleum Concessions Limited (PCL) and the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani and the issue of oil royalties.
FO 371/109915

Collection of Oil Agreements and connected documents relating to the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms and Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, 1954

This file contains correspondence on: A request for copies of the Aminoil Islands Concession and its political agreement, and copies of the Kuwait Oil concessions and agreements other than the 1934 ones (1) An invitation from the Institute of Petroleum for Mr Reilly to give a talk on national and international aspects of oil finance (2) Plans for talks between the British Embassy in Washington, DC and the US State Department, regarding Middle East oil and particularly Kuwait (3) An enquiry into vacancies in the pipeline industry in the Arabian Peninsula (4) HMG's attitude to the

FO 371/168863

Courts and trials, 1963

This file contains correspondence relating to: Discussion of the labour, commercial register and companies laws in Qatar and agreement to the adoption of Kuwait-style QR regarding the labour law. The decree of the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Ahmad Bin Ali Al Thani on the Commercial Registration Organization (16) Request for authority to brief B A Miller of Ballantyne and Miller for the Crown at the same fee he would have received for defence in the trial of Pervaiz Iqbal. Miller's reluctance to act as prosecuting counsel and possible terms of agreement.
FO 371/104342

Opening of branches of the British Bank of the Middle East in Sharjah and proposals to open further branches in Kuwait and Qatar. Code EA file 1115, 1953

This file contains correspondence on: British Bank of the Middle East’s proposal to open a branch in the neutral zone near Kuwait in a location agreed by Aminoil (7, 8) Enquiries of progress made on visit to Bahrain by the Chief Inspector of the branches of the Habib Bank Limited, Karachi (9) Report on a conversation between the manager of the British Bank of the Middle East and D A Greenhill on the opening of a branch in Doha (10) British Bank of the Middle East's shortage of sterling (11) Conversation with Mr Musker on the growing importance of Doha as an oil centre which could