Negotiations between the UK and Saudi Arabia on frontier questions. Code ES file 1081 (papers 66 - 94)

This file contains correspondence on:

• Frontier negotiations. It includes the original Arabic text of the 1935 Saudi Arabia Frontier Offer; confirmation from Sheikh Hafiz Wahba that the Saudis do not propose to resume the conference until October at the earliest (67-68)
• American interest in the Saudi Arabian frontier negotiations (70)
• Southeastern Saudi Arabian frontier negotiations (71)
• Frontier dispute. It includes discussions on the importance of reaching a settlement; the US attitude towards the frontier dispute; a brief outline of position prior to and since the Dammam Conference; discussions at the Foreign Office on the 25 June (72-77)
• Liwa - Bainuna expedition. it includes a report on the inhabitants of Liwa (78-79)
• Saudi claims that officials of a British oil company are operating in the disputed territory of Jebel Al Dhanna (80-81)
• Operations of Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited in Abu Dhabi (82)
• Confirmation that no work has been undertaken by Petroleum Concessions Limited within the territories claimed by the Saudi Government (83)
• Appointment of Rashid Bin Jabir as personal Wali to the Ruler of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Shakhbut Bin Sultan Al Nahyan (84)
• Note of a conversation with Abdulla Darwish concerning the Saudi Arabian boundary dispute (85)
• Delay in the completion of M S Buckmaster's report, now anticipated for beginning of September (86)
• Main part of Buckmaster's report on his expedition to Liwa, Dhafara, and other areas claimed by the Ruler of Abu Dhabi (87)
• Memorandum on the discussions to be held on the 5 September on the Saudi Arabian frontier dispute (88)
• Note by the Research Department on Ibn Saud’s claim to the land of his ancestors (89)
• Proposal for the Saudi negotiations to be resumed this winter following Buckmaster's report (90)
• Record of discussion on the 5 September on the Saudi Arabian frontier dispute (91)
• Various issues raised on boundary dispute after a meeting with Abdulla Darwish on 6 September (92)
• Report on Saudi actions and American views following Buckmaster’s report (93)
• Effect of the boundary dispute with Saudi Arabia on the operation of Petroleum Development Limited in the contested areas (94)