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3. With regard to the point
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rulsod in paragraph 3 of Your
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4 4 • ••• I • '• 9 botwoon Your Highness and Petroleum
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. * ** Concessions Limited regarding tho
"additional area" a map was propared
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in which a considerably larger aroa
of tho oea-bod was shov/n as bolonglnj
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to Bahrain than that which at present
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has boen allotted to her, and it is
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also true that the Political Agent
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was present during the discussions
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and thut ho raised no objection to
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tho map, This cannot, however, be
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taken as implying any aacoptance by
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His Majesty's Government of the
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boundary then claimed on beholf of
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Bahrain and, in fact, Mossrs. Potro-
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leum Concessions Limited wore in-
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formed at the time that if tho
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Shaikh of Qatar wore to advance
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claims would have to be considered by
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His Majesty's Governmont with a view
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to reaching a docision.
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communication appears to have boen
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made to Your Highness' late father
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tlons took place between the Govern­
Cfrt s?4~^U« ment of Bahrain and certain oil comf-
nioo for a specified aroa cannot be
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Buhruln's claims to that area. On