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                  the Indian Ambassador at Tehran for the President of India and by Lieutenant-
                  Colonel Woods Ballard, Minister of Foreign Affairs, for the Sultan of Muscat ('”)
                  It reproduced much of the 1951 treaty between Muscat and the United Kingdom
                  and provides amongst other things for the appointment by each party of Consuls
                  in the other’s territories, but nothing further has yet been heard of any intention
                  of the Government of India to appoint a Consul to Muscat. It is to run for
                  five years from the dale of ratification and after that is terminable on six months’
                  notice by either party. It had not been ratified by the end of I953.(,a:)

                                                (e) Pakistan
                      75. The Sultan has always regarded Pakistan with suspicion, possibly because
                  of her attitude towards Gwadur. He has also insisted on his relations with Pakistan
                  being conducted through Her Majesty’s Government on the ground that she is a
                  Dominion although he has more than once been informed that this is no obstacle
                  to direct relations. In 1949, however, he paid an official visit to Karachi, where
                  he was well received. In the same year a ship of the Royal Pakistan Navy visited
                  Muscat.
                      76.  After partition the Sultan held that Pakistan was not a party to the 1939
                  Commercial Treaty and that if she wished to become one she must formally accede
                  to it. The Pakistanis held different views but the matter was never put to the
                  test. When negotiations were started for the new Treaty of 1951 the Pakistan
                  Government stated that they did not wish to be party to it and that they would
                  prefer to make their own arrangements. They accordingly proposed to send a
                  delegation to the Sultan in November 1951 to discuss the lines on which a
                  separate Treaty might be concluded. He refused to receive such a delegation
                  but promised to consider proposals lor a Treaty if they were submitted to him
                  through His Majesty’s Government. The Pakistan Government were notified
                  accordingly and informed that His Majesty’s Government were willing to act as
                  an intermediary in the manner proposed but nothing further has been heard on
                  the subject.!'28)
                      77.  Reference has been made elsewhere to the Pakistan Government’s desire
                  to obtain possession of Gwadur (paragraph 47 above) and to the Pakistani Post
                  Office at Gwadur (paragraph 100 below). In 1950 the Sultan granted permission
                  for the establishment of pilot balloon observatories by the Pakistan Government
                  at Matrah and Gwadur. These have not been established but some meteorological
                  data are supplied by Her Majesty’s Consulate at Muscat to the Pakistan
                  authorities. In 1950 a Pakistan anti-locust party was permitted to operate in
                  Gwadur.
                      78. The Pakistan Government have not yet raised the question of the
                  appointment of a Consul in Muscat and Her Majesty's Consul-General is in charge
                  of their interests there. In 1951 they asked that their nationals should be excluded
                  from the arrangement whereby Her Majesty’s Consul-General exercises a limited
                  jurisdiction over nationals of Commonwealth countries (paragraph 85 below).


                                         (/) United States of America
                      79. Reference has already been made (paragraph 15 above) to the failure of
                  the attempt to persuade the United States of America to agree to a modification of
                  their treaty with Muscat to facilitate an increase of the Muscat tariffs. No reports
                  have since been received of any American cargoes being landed in Muscat territory
                  but it seems unlikely that if they were, preferential treatment would be claimed for
                  them.
                      80 In March 1934 the United States Minister at Bagdad, accredited as
                  Minister Plenipotentiary and Envoy on special mission, paid a short visit to Muscat

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                     (<»•) P R to F.O. Despatch 43 of May 7. 1953 (EA 10385/2 of 1953).
                                     TcU^OofOctober 29. .951 (EA .086/21 of .951).
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