1964 FILE B 1441 (Security Grading—to be Up-graded where Appropriate) ARABIAN DEPARTMENT 1965 GENERAL introduchön of Sultanate stamps ! Encloses Copy of: Dated Encloses Copy of : References and Relevant Papers : Received Postal Agencies in the Persian Gulf Ms. Berthaud 38 a. 8) 0.17. Elliot (GPS) 262. position. Before drafting, it may be worth summarising the Se) boc. ds.g.44. Bousted Asu hati 36 Postal Independence &) T.E.R Proley (ooha) 2612 | Bahrain is ready to take over in November 1965 (see BB 14415 - Mr. Tripp's letter 1441/64 of November 1). The Post Office (see letter within) find a difficulty with the suggested &) pw. Summuscale (Barrei) date of handover of November 1 and would prefer some time between November 15 and December 5. This should not raise difficulty but we shall need to put it to Bahrain. &) Is.r. Duncan (Muscat) zou On Qatar we await a reply to our letter BQ 1441/1 of January 6 to the Post Office suggesting that the Qataris should take over completely. On Abu Dhabi, the Post Office have now agreed (letter within) that we should suggest, on the lines of paragraph 5 of our letter B 1441/2 of July 20 that the Ruler should assume control but continue to be advised as necessary from Bahrain. I hope there is no reason why we shd not now go ahead (Printing Instructions) 179774 On Muscat and Oman the Sultan has already been told of our desire to hand over postal services to him, and he has responded (as expected) unfavourably - see Mr. Duncan's letter 1442 of January 14 on BC 1441/1. I assume that we shall wish to return to the charge on this but would be grateful for any comments from Mr. Powell before drafting. (Referred to Legal Adviser) (Main Indexed) (Action completed) We also need to get in touch with the Post Office on the answers to the questions in paragraphs 4-6 of the letter within. I would be grateful for Mr. Powell's observations on paragraphs 4 and 6 on which I have not yet seen earlier pp. (On paragraph 5, the Bahrain Government hope to intro duce their new currency in the autumn of 1965. The dinar will be equivalent to 15/- divided into 1,000 fils. 100 fils will thus be the exact sterling equivalent at parity of 1 rupee.) Representation on the Universal Postal Union The position from earlier pp. is set out in my letter of December 16 on BB 1441/5 of 1964. In this, we took the /line
