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------------------ ---------------------- The Blue Line of the Anglo-Ottoman
Convention of July 1913 -------------------------------- ----- Frontier claimed h\ Saudi Arjbu.
7 7 Presumed course ol the frontier October 1949
— . . . . . frontier claimed b> Abu Dhabi.
claimed b\ Saudi Arabia. April 19^5
(the Red Line) Januarv 1952
_________ Frontier declared bv British
. . Frontier proposed by British Government October 1955
Government. Nov ember 1935
(the Riyad I me), as modified 0 10 50
December 1937 I l __J_ .a i_ j miles
I---r~-T 7-1 ’ - r- ri
10 80km

^r“^±mentaI err°r °f iUdgement which h-e unfor.u-
During r lb f ty years afterwards.
projected8frondercomm^s ° Aufust 1951 Faisal suggested that while the
in the disputed areas should h W°rk activities by oil comPanies

by Ibn Saud in • e banne<^- The same suggestion had been made
then in dispute Tn ^°nCernin? exPloration by CASOC and IPC in the areas
however imnliniti ave acquiesced in it would have been to acknowledge,
nary rights in th °F lrec^y’ tbat CASOC actually possessed concessio-
have conceded areas,.wb*cb’ of course, it did not. Acquiescence would also
paritv for even’ • a®am by implication, that Saudi Arabia had some kind of

under the conr^1^^ tO tbe disputed areas, since CASOC operated
perhaps most n S.SIOnary authority of the Saudi government. Finally, and
admitting th t ido»0US a^’ acquiescence would have been tantamount to
a s concessionary rights were themselves ill-founded. IPC