العلاقات التجارية بين البحرين والسعودية p.3

FO 371/126947 1957
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CONFIDENTIAL
INWARD SAVING TELEGRAM

FROM BAHRAIN TO FOREIGN OFFICE

By Bag

DEPARTMENTAL
DISTRIBUTION

Sir B. Burrows

No. 31 Saving
September 26, 1957

R. September 30, 1957
CONFIDENTIAL

Addressed to Foreign Office telegram No.31 Saving of
September 26,
Repeated for information Saving to: Kuwait, Doha, Dubai,

Muscat and Political Agent
Bahrain.

Bahrain/Saudi Relations.

I was informed by the Secretary to the Bahrain Government on
September 21 that the Ruler had received a letter from bin Jiluwi,
the Governor of Hasa, announcing the appointment of Abdulrahman
al Qosaibi (Bahrain personalities No.5 and see e.g, my telegram
No.176 of 1956) as Saudi Trade Agent in Bahrain, and expressing
the hope that this would be acceptable to the Ruler. Mr. Smith
said that the Ruler would be glad of my views. I was still
researching into the back history of this question when I was
informed on the next day that the Ruler had replied to bin Jiluwi
accepting the proposal, and had given instructions that the
appointment was to be announced on Bahrain radio, which was done.

2. Reference to the previous existence of a Saudi Trade Agent
in Bahrain is on page 26, paragraph 79 of P.G.53. It does not
appear that the previous appointments in Bahrain or Kuwait have
been regarded as carrying any diplomatic or consular privileges,
or as requiring any covering agreement between Her Majesty's
Government and the Saudi Government, and it does not therefore
seem necessary for us to make any comment to the Ruler of Bahrain

on the present occasion. If the views expressed in my despatch
SI No.116 of August 28 are approved, we should be glad to see this

example of increasingly close relations between Bahrain and Saudi
Arabia.

3. The reasons for the appointment are still obscure. Bahrain's
trade with Saudi Arabia has recently been at a very low ebb owing
mainly to the depreciation of the riyal and it is possible that the

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