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FCO 8/2890

UK/UAE Joint Committee: general, 1977 Jan 01 - 1977 Dec 31

This file concerns matters about the UK-UAE Joint Committee, December 1976 to December 1977.
FCO 8/76

Membership of FAO, 1967-1968

This file contains correspondence relating to: Selection of the Director of Agriculture, Michel Farah to represent Qatar at the Conference of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, November 1967 Selection of the Director of Information Sheikh Mohammad Bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, Director of Agriculture Sheikh Ibrahim Bin Hamad Al Khalifa and a secretary to represent Bahrain at the Fourteenth Conference of the FAO taking place in Rome, November 1967 Letter from the Director-General of the FAO A H Boerma to Director of the Bahrain Finance Department on the admission of tha
FO 1016/841

Trucial States: water resources, 1966 Jan 01 - 1966 Dec 31

This file contains correspondence relating to: 'Trucial States Development Water Resources Survey, Progress Report for December, 1965' from Sir William Halcrow & Partners Limited to the Director of the Trucial States Development Office Acting Director of the Trucial States Council, C B Kendall's authorisation of the Chief Resident Engineer of Halcrow, N G Allen to purchase a suitable drilling rig for the Council Planned visit by Professor Howard Bowen-Jones of Durham University and Dr Stanley Gordon Willimott of the universities of Reading and Southampton to parts of Jordan 
FO 371/179940

Jurisdiction, 1965

This file contains correspondence relating to: Request for a copy of the Pesticides Ordinance approved by six of the Trucial States and a further approach to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan to obtain his signature and enable the implementation of parallel legislation in Bahrain; the approval of the ordinance by Judge Subhi Hijab and its rejection by Sheikh Shakhbut; the Northern Trucial States Pesticides (Control) Regulation 1965 (Queen's Regulation No 4 of 1965) by the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf,and approved on 24 August 1965 (4, 7, 20) Tru
FO 371/132760

Internal political situation in Trucial States, 1958

This file contains: Second issue of the Trucial Council Broadsheet and related correspondence (1) Agenda and minutes of the 12th meeting of the Trucial Council and third meetings of the Education and Public Health Committees held in Dubai on 13 May 1958 and related correspondence (2) Correspondence relating to Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi's suggestion of a federation of the Trucial States, including the views of the Foreign Office Eastern Department and consideration of the tribes round Buraimi and policy in Muscat and Oman (4)

FO 371/132535

Internal political situation in Trucial States, 1958

This file contains correspondence relating to: D F Hawley's opinion in favour of a Trucial States Federation to ensure they survive. Hawley proposes carefully sounding the Rulers out and encouraging Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi of Sharjah to go ahead with the development of his ideas.