§ MR. E. STANHOPEasked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether it is not the fact that Persia claims a considerable portion of the territory recently annexed by Russia in Central Asia; whether any remonstrances on the subject have been addressed by Persia to Her Majesty's Government; and, whether it is true that Russia has refused to allow any representative of this Country to be present at the approaching delimitation of the new Russo-Persian frontier.
§ SIR CHARLES W. DILKESir, in answer to the first clause of the Question, I have to say that we are not aware that that is so. No remonstrance on the subject has been addressed by that Power to Her Majesty's Government; and no 1714 proposal has been made to Russia, or refused by her, for the presence of a British Representative at the delimitation of the new Frontier.