Kuwait-Iraq frontier demarcation
FO 1016/39 1951 Jan 22-Dec 31Description
This file relates to the Kuwait-Iraq frontier. It contains:
- Reports of photographic surveys, including a map of the frontier (Umm Qasr) and a facsimile of part of a map attached to the Anglo-Turkish agreement of 1913
- Correspondence on the demarcation of the frontier line
- Correspondence on the agricultural development south of Safwan
- Kuwait Oil Company's request to survey and shoot some seismograph lines on the northern boundary
- Kuwait Oil Company's surveying programme
- Extract from the Iraqi Times of the 22 May 1951 on the Aum-Kasir [Umm Qasr] Port project
- Proposals for a frontier commission
- Al Subah [Al Sabah] date gardens
- A request for the RAF to take photographs of Safwan and Umm Qasr areas
- Confirmation of areas for photographs to be taken on the Kuwait-Iraq frontier
- Agreement of the Iraqis to discuss the demarcation