Kuwait-Iraq frontier demarcation

FO 1016/39 1951 Jan 22-Dec 31
Description

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