§ 60. Mr. A. Hendersonasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs with which of the independent rulers and States in the Persian Gulf Her Majesty's Government have treaty obligations in respect of their security.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydHer Majesty's Government have a Treaty obligation to protect Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar. A similar obligation is implicit in the Perpetual Maritime Treaties of 1853 to which all the present Rulers of the seven Trucial States, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras al-Khaimah, Ajman, Umm al-Qaiwain and Fujairah have adhered. There is in addition an explicit undertaking to the Ruler of Fujairah that his State is under British protection.
§ 74. Mr. Grimondasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will take steps to review and regularise our relations with the Rulers of territory around the Persian Gulf.
§ Mr. Selwyn LloydThe relations between Her Majesty's Government and the Rulers of the territories round the Persian Gulf are kept under constant review. As conditions in the individual States differ, the nature of Her Majesty's Government's relations with their Rulers differ accordingly and these relations cannot be regularised in any uniform pattern. Moreover, any change in the nature of these relations could not be determined by Her Majesty's Government only, but would be a matter for agreement between Her Majesty's Government and the Rulers concerned.