HC Deb 15 April 1889 vol 335 c490
DR. CAMERON

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether any information has been received at the Foreign Office as to the truth of the reported cession by Persia to Russia of the fortress Kalat-I-Nadir, and the conditions on which it has been ceded?

*THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON,) Manchester, E.

Her Majesty's Minister at Teheran has been assured that there is no truth in the reported cession of Kalat I-Nadir by Persia to Russia.