Political relations between Egypt and the Trucial States: unauthorised visit by Colonel Saadat and Egyptian diplomats to Persian Gulf Islamic Conference at Mecca, Gulf rulers discouraged from attending

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Unexpected visit of Anwar Sadat to Doha to inform the Ruler of Qatar Sheikh Ali Bin Abdulla Al Thani of the Islamic Conference to be held in Mecca after the pilgrimage (1)
• Islamic Congress Charter [enclosed] and Britain's desire to discourage Gulf Rulers from sending representatives because of its thinly veiled political aims (2, 4, 8)
• Rumours that King Saud may present a Convair aircraft to the Ruler of Qatar (3)
• The Sultan of Muscat and Oman Saeed Bin Taimur's indignation that the Egyptian First Secretary Ali Khashaba visited Nizwa and spoke to the Imam of Oman Ghalib Al Hina'i about the Islamic Conference. An intercepted report also suggests he was offered arms and money (5, 9, 12)
• Egyptian staying in Hamasa where a Saudi Arabian doctor lives (6)
• Egyptian Prime Minister Gamal Abdul Nasser's visit to Bahrain on his return from the Afro-Asian Bandung Conference (7, 11)
• Visit of the former Egyptian Foreign Minister Dr Mohammad Saleh Al Din to Kuwait where he gave lectures against the imperialism of Western powers (10)
• Invitation for young Bahrainis to visit Egypt and the intention of the High Executive Committee to send Bahraini students to Egypt. The Ruler of Bahrain Sheikh Salman Bin Hamad Al Khalifa is indignant that this was done without his knowledge (13)
• Egyptian Ambassador in Baghdad inviting the Ruler of Qatar to send a representative to the Arab Medical Congress. Britain want such invites to be refused (14)
• Egyptian approach to the Ruler of Sharjah Sheikh Saqr Bin Sultan Al Qasimi to provide teachers and doctors (15-16)
• Anwar Sadat's visit to Kuwait in December 1955 (17, 19-21)
• Conversation between H Trevelyan's Oriental Counsellor and the Assistant Secretary-General of the Islamic Conference about Egyptian activities in the Trucial States (18)