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* I I %)IvUVI ^lo (Cll/3/83/61) POLITICAL AQENCY,
BAHRAIN,
•(o i /n /r/nr) COWFinKNTIAL. 85th 6optumber 1953
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To
Ills Highness flhaikh Sir Salman
M I T •
V*-** to I V I 1
bin Hamad A1 Khallfah, K.G.I.E • j
m IlJUJl,. JO" LL. I J «.»«.) I
Kulnr of Bahrain.
1 I v>Ch*^l I 1 * if**" *
pl/3*>*V I JjC, i>* J"l^*J|p p^l-J I After Complimentsi

O—Jl^4—-A I ,1) —il I *J I havo the honour to refer to
j l‘»^( If 11 l^J I the correspondence ending with my
£,>J|(o \ /\\ A /\ \y-) .//q/' lottor (C13/3/19/61) of the 2Bnd
!■■<< (J I j 4 1 1 0 ) 1 September, 1961, and to my interview
Lul^L-p I I |J—a with Your Highness this morning In
p-4y V-l I * 1---^ which we discussed the islands and
I Q&+«J IJ 0‘" I i* shoals claimed by Bahrain end by
vJ—S^ Jl ^ Saudi Arabia. I understood that
1-J l ..■.»..«) I < vl.n ■«»> y—-J ^ .11«». Your Highness1s position in this
• l——a matter is as followat-
In the interests of a friendly
pU LJ #1—^ I I i£L.*J I q. —. settlement with Saudi Arabia, you
JjUuJl^C I) U1 ot would bo prepared either (a) to cede

l----il»fl—i ij. .^013—-JfrfJ 1o—* tho whole of Bainah-al-Kabir island
a j^JiiJ^iaiuii oJi to Saudi Arabia in full sovereignty,

cjJDIjUllVjl-^l «J0 M jl i-tJi or (b) (if as much conoesslon as
ur-J 1 l--pX-U« 0$i p-J ( I) ^—i that at (a) wore not required to
M—i o*—* Jj i -iii i-fi (<—jj roach a settlement) to oede the
*fl«J1| a^.w.^01 a.. A*f) l o—■* western half of Dainah-al*:Knbir island
04/■ ■!I «K..1cl»oj to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain to retain
UfcJ 4 *Uas* l o i /J M-—U Irf tho oastorn half} tho user of the.
•lL^o-^>JI5bO L^U-% oA— wholo Island to be oommon to both
I J I u^Jv parties oxcopt for the purposes of.
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