UN aid Persian Gulf

This file relates to UN Development Programme (UNDP) aid to the Gulf. It contains correspondence concerning:

• Qatar's request to UNDP for collaboration in executing 'hydro-agricultural resource surveys' and an 'industrial vocational training scheme'
• Bahrain's eligibility for UNDP aid and the question of how an aid request should be channelled
• Rationale for when UNDP should correspond directly with Bahrain and Qatar or consult HMG
• Idea of channelling aid from the World Food Programme (WFP) into the Trucial States via Kuwait
• Qatar's request for technical assistance facilities
• Exchange of Notes between HMG, on behalf of Bahrain, and UNDP extending to Bahrain certain Technical Assistance Agreements between HMG and the UN and its Specialised Agencies; and the delayed publication due to relations with Iran
• Request from the Trucial States Council for getting a malaria survey team from the World Health Organization (WHO) to visit
• Suggestion that UNDP be encouraged to establish a sub-office in Bahrain or Dubai, and discussions with UNDP Resident Representative Hasan Mohammad Hasan about UNDP assistance for the Trucial States
• List of projects, produced by Hasan, for Qatar under direction of the UNDP programme in Saudi Arabia
• Request by Bahrain for an educational planning project, including descriptions for the posts of educational programmer and technical education consultant
• Four main categories of project qualifying for aid from the WFP
• Request by the Governments of Syria, Jordan, Sudan, Kuwait, Libya, the United Arab Republic, Abu Dhabi and Qatar for the proposed establishment and reorganisation of the Higher Arab Postal Institute in Damascus
• Statement of account in respect of local living costs of experts for the expanded programme of technical assistance in Qatar during 1965; and arrears of payments
• Proposed budget estimates for setting up a pilot cooperative scheme under the Trucial States Council
• Visit to the Gulf by the Executive Director of the UN Industrial Development Organisation Dr Ibrahim Hilmi Abdul Rahman
• Hasan's expectation that he will leave his post in 1969 and be posted as Deputy Permanent Under Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Khartoum