18 and 19. Mr. MALONEasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies (1) whether he will make a statement with regard to all the points of dispute with the Iraqi Government;
(2) what are the terms of the military and financial agreements subsidiary to the Anglo-Iraq Treaty of December, 1927, which have been proposed to the Iraqi Government; whether it is the opinion of the Government that ratification of that treaty is dependent on the acceptance of these subsidiary agreements by the Iraqi Government; and whether, pending such ratification, the treaty of 1924 is considered to be operative?
§ Mr. AMERYI would invite the hon. Member's attention to the reply which I gave to the right hon. and gallant Gentleman, the Member for Newcastle-under-Lyme (Colonel Wedgwood) on the 24th January. I do not think that it would be in the public interest to make a fuller statement at this stage on the points at issue, as conversations with the Iraq Government are still proceeding. His Majesty's Government have already informed the Iraq Government that the Treaty of December, 1927, will not be ratified until the new Financial and Military Agreements have also been concluded. Until the new Treaty enters into force, the treaties of October, 1922, and January, 1926. will remain operative.