Frontier dispute between Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf States

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• HMG's proposed reply to Saudi Arabian notes on Buraimi, frontier arbitration and the Standstill Agreement (15)
• Notes to the Saudi Arabian Government offering a renewal of arbitration proposals and a reply to the Jeddah dispatch (16)
• Question as to whether the Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur should be given texts of notes exchanged with the Saudis on flag flying at Buraimi (17)
• Views of the Air Officer commanding Habbaniya [Al Habbaniyah] regarding landing armoured cars following a visit to Sharjah (18)
• Two reports to Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur by Saif Bin Amir on his visit to Dhank on the Sultan's behalf (20)
• Extract from the Chiefs of Staff meeting on 1 January discussing military measures to be taken in the Trucial States (21)
• Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur is unable to marshal a tribal force without warning and without an object obvious to the tribes (22)
• The Buraimi situation. It includes the Imam's gathering of Sheikhs in Nizwa (23)
• Arguments to be used if C G Pelham is summoned to Riyadh as a result of the renewal of the offer of arbitration (24)
• Armoured car flights with about 100 men due to land at Basra on 9 January (25)
• Discussion with Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur on giving assistance to Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi and bolstering his position in Dhank (26)
• Saudi Arabian frontier dispute (27-29)
• The Buraimi situation (30-32)
• Explanation of circumstances under which Sultan Saeed Bin Taimur would mobilise the tribes (33)
• Coordination of measures in the Gulf. Mr Baird to give the Chiefs of Staff a broad background of the current troubles and future forecast developments (34)
• Saudi frontier dispute. It includes: Intelligence on bringing the account of the dispute up to date for the Cabinet to decide to move forces into the Trucial States; and information for the Commonwealth (35-36)
• Full support given by the US State Department for arbitration in Mr Bruce's interview with the Saudi Ambassador on 7 January; an enquiry made about forces sent to Trucial Sheikhdoms; the attitude to arbitration (38-39, 41)