711.90G21/4
The Secretary of State to the Minister Resident in Iraq ( Knabenshue )
Sir: The receipt is acknowledged of your telegram No. 1 of Januuary 2, 10 a.m.,38 stating that the Iraqi Government has agreed to commence negotiations of a series of treaties suggested by the Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs in a letter to you dated November 9, 1939.38
There is enclosed herewith a draft of a consular convention between the United States and Iraq38 which you are authorized to present to the Iraqi Government at such time as you may deem appropriate.
Nearly all of the provisions embodied in the enclosed draft have counterparts in provisions in treaties of friendship, commerce and consular rights or in consular conventions now in force between the United States and other countries. The texts of these treaties and conventions have, however, been reconsidered carefully and many improvements in language have been made in the enclosed draft.
As of possible interest there are enclosed three copies of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights between the United [Page 748] States and Norway signed June 5, 1928,39 Articles XVI to XXVII of which relate to consular rights and privileges.
It is understood, of course, that the enclosed draft is tentative, and that if accepted by the Iraqi Government as a basis of negotiation, either Government may propose changes at any time during the course of the negotiations.
Very truly yours,
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- Foreign Relations, 1928, vol. iii, p. 646.↩