SAUDI ARABIA-KUWAIT RELATIONS.

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Trade Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom (Acting on Behalf of His Highness the Sheikh of Koweit) First edition, reproducing the Saudi-Kuwaiti trade accord signed concurrent to their April 1942 agreement of friendship. The negotiations in Jeddah marked a significant upturn in relations, ameliorating tensions that had grown in the two decades since the Uqair Protocol. This uncommon government paper is held by only nine institutions worldwide.At the talks, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait signed three important documents, the other concerning the extradition of offenders. All were brokered by Francis Stonehewer-Bird, Britain's representative in Saudi Arabia, and Sheikh Yusuf Yasin, Ibn Saud's private secretary. The trade agreement put in place new customs regulations to combat smuggling and regulate trade caravans and also guaranteed a freedom of movement for attendees of musabala (markets).Copies are held by the British Library, University of California, Harvard, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, UBC, Global Affairs Canada, National Library of Israel, United Nations (Geneva), and La contemporaine (Nanterre).

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