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Government at Kowcit, or at any other place within the limits of his
territory, without the previous sanction of the British Government; and
he further binds himself, his heirs and successors not to cede, sell, lease,
mortgage, or give for occupation or for any other purpose any portion
of his territory to the Government or subjects of any other Power without
the previous consent of Her Majesty’s Government for these purposes. This
engagement also to extend to any portion of the territory of the said Sheikh
Mubarak, which may now be in the possession of the subjects of any other
Government.
In token of the conclusion of this lawful and honourable bond, Lieutenant-
Colonel Malcolm John Meade, I.S.C., Her Britannic Majesty’s Political
Resident in the Persian Gulf, and Sheikh Mubarak-bin-Sheikh Subah, the
former on behalf of the British Government and the latter on behalf of
himself, his heirs and successors do each, in the presence of witnesses, affix
their signatures on this, the tenth day of Ramazan 1316, corresponding with
the twenty-third day of January, 1899.
M. J. Meade Mubarak-Al-Subah
Political Resident in
the Persian Gulf
Witnesses:
E. Wickham Hore, Capt., I.M.S. Muhammad Rahim Bin
T. Calcott Gaskin Abdul Nebi Saffer

APPENDIX XII

Kuwait-Saudi Arabia Agreement to partition
the Neutral Zone
Signed at Al-Hadda, Saudi Arabia,
7 July 19651

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE STATE OF KUWAIT AND THE KINGDOM OF
SAUDI ARABIA RELATING TO THE PARTITION OF THE NEUTRAL ZONE
In the Name of God the Compassionate, the Merciful.
Whereas the two Contracting Parties have equal rights in the shared Zone
whose land boundaries are delineated in accordance with the boundary
Convention made at A1 Uqair in 13 Rabi, Thani, 1341 corresponding to
2nd December, 1922, and the agreed Minutes signed at Kuwait on 12
Shaual, 1380, corresponding to 21st March, 1961 (called hereinafter the
‘Partitioned Zone’), and r__
Whereas the aforesaid Convention did not regulate the exercise of those
rights, and as that state of affairs was of a provisional nature which entailed
serious practical difficulties and
* International Legal Materials, vol. LV No. 6, November (1965), pp. 1134-7.