Catalogue description Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Political Office, Dubai

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Reference: FCO 164
Title: Foreign Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Political Office, Dubai
Description:

This series contains files concerning commercial agreements and some records inherited from other Gulf Region political agencies. The records cover a wide range of subjects relating to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and its predecessor sheikdoms, including constitution and legislation; treaties; land and boundary claims; disputes and agreements; oil concessions; the development of the UAE; the tribes of the Persian Gulf. Includes maps and Arabic documents.
Date: 1820-1979
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Political Agency, Dubai, 1968-1971

Foreign Office, Political Agency, Dubai, 1948-1968
Physical description: 97 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

from 2017 Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Administrative / biographical background:

Following the First World War, due to the decline of the cultured pearl trade and the depression of the 1920s, the British Government (assisted by the seven emirates sheikhs) set up a development office in the Gulf to aid the development emirates. In 1952 they formed the Trucial States Council. When the British-Trucial Sheikhdoms treaty expired on 1 December 1971, they became fully independent.

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