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Bahrain-Qatar dispute over Zubarah, 1953-1960 559

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Record of a mooting between His Highness
tho Rulor and the Political Agent on
Docomber 11. 1956.

SUDJECT

.1)’ Withdrawal of Police from'tho Port at
Zubarah.

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1. The Political Agent said that ao the
a Ruler would be aware lie had approached Shaikh
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h Ahmed during the Ruler's' absence in Geneva and
2 had then asked that .the permanent police post
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and the fort should only be visited by police
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absence and this reply had been reported to the
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Political Resident; tho Political Resident had [
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2 given instructions that the matter should be
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o taken up again v/ith the Ruler and the Political
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Agent now did'so. He requestedtthe Ruler to
withdraw the 'police post and to issue orders
that they Bliould in future only visit tho fort
occasionally. He did so on tv/o grounds. Tho
first was that tho presence of police
permanently in the fort cut ucross the
arrangement made by the Political Resident in
1954. In his letter of Huy 5> 1954 to the
Ruler the Political Resident had written "The
Qatar Police would not maintain a police po3t
at Zubarah but would be Xree to ontor tho fort
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