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Uqair Protocol of 1922

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1922 agreement between Iraq, Nejd, and Kuwait

Uqair Protocol of 1922
The territory of Kuwait and the two neutral zones, west and south of Kuwait, agreed in 1922
Signed	December 2, 1922 (1922-12-02)
Location	Uqair, Saudi Arabia
Signatories	Percy Cox,Ibn Saud

The borders of Kuwait as established after consultations between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire in 1913

TheUqair Protocol orUqair Convention^[1] was an agreement atUqair on 2 December 1922 that defined the boundaries betweenMandatory Iraq, theSultanate of Nejd andSheikhdom of Kuwait. It was made^[2] byPercy Cox, the BritishHigh Commissioner to Iraq, in response toIkhwan raiders from Nejd underIbn Saud attacking Kuwait. Cox met ibn Saud and Major John More, the British Political Agent to Kuwait. The boundaries included aSaudi–Iraqi neutral zone and aSaudi–Kuwaiti neutral zone.

Kuwait was not permitted any role in the outcome of the Uqair agreement when the Saudis and British decided Kuwait's modern boundaries. Kuwait lost more than two thirds of its territory as a result of the agreement, as well as its second largest town, the port of Manifa.^[3] The loss of territory made anti-British sentiment grow in Kuwait.

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^Map of boundaries determined by Uqair Protocol
^"Imposition of Uqair Protocol". Archived fromthe original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved2015-12-15.
^Mary Ann Tétreault (1995).The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and the Economics of the New World Order. pp. 2–3.ISBN 9780899305103.

Lauterpacht, E.; Greenwood, C. J.; Weller, Marc (1991-06-01). "1.6 The determination of boundaries between Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia (Najd)".The Kuwait Crisis: Basic Documents. Cambridge University Press. pp. 45–49.ISBN 978-0-521-46308-9.