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مجموعة مختارة من الوثائق القانونية والتاريخية والجغرافية التي قدمت لمحكمة التحكيم لتأييد وجهة النظر المصرية
(تابع) المرفق رقم (7) الرد التركي على الإنذار البريطاني، مذكرة بريطانية مؤرخة 15 مايو 1906 بشأن حدود سيناء
"وزارة الخارجية المصرية، الكتاب الأبيض عن قضية طابا، القاهرة، 1989، ص 157 - 161"

المرفق رقم (7)(ب)

No. 373

TURKEY AND EGYPT.
(Sinai Peninsula)

Oct.,1906

(2) The British Ambassador at Costantinople to the Ottoman Minister for Foreign flairs .

M.le Ministre,

 

Constantinople, 15th May,1906.

          I Lost no time in referring to my Government the note which your Excellency was so good as to address to me on the 11th instant in reply to my note of the 12th on the subject of the occupation of Taba and delimitation of the Peninsula of Sinai.

          His Majesty's Government have received with pleasure your Excel Ieney's declaration that the Sublime Porte does not question the contents , of the telegram addressed by the deceased Grand Vizier, Djevad Pasha to His Highness the Khedive on the 8th April, 1892; that the with drawal of the Imperial troops from Taba has been decided upon; and that instructions have been sent to the Ottoman Staff Officers now at Akaba to delimit and record on a map, jointly with the officials to be -appointed by His Highness the khedive, the line of demarcation run ning approximately sitaight from Rafeh in a south-easterly direction to a point on the Gulf of Akaba not less than 3 miles from Akaba so as to insure the maintenance of the status que in the Sinai Peninsula on the bases of the telegram above mentioned of the 8th April,1982.

          On behalf of His Majesty's Government I have the honour to take act of the foregoing declarations, also of the declaration of his High ness the Grand Vizier that orders have been sent for the withdrawal of the Ottoman troops into Turkish territory to the east of Rafeh should any have crossed to the Egyptian side, and the restoration of the pillars said to have been lately destroyed there, and to express their satisfaction at the settlement of this question, which cannot fail to contribute to the maintenance and consolidation of those friendly relations which are so desirable in the interests of both countries, and which are no less appreciated by the Government of my august Sovereign than by that of His Imperial Majesty the Sultan.

Iavail,&c.,

N. R. O'CONOR.


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