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Letter from Sir Mortimer Durand
to Ameer Abdul Rahman Khan
Kabul, November 11, 1893
Credits: Azmaray Khan
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...After compliments
"When Your Highness came to the throne of Afghanistan, Sir Lepel Griffin was
instructed to give you the assurance that, if any Foreign Power should attempt
to interfere in Afghanistan, and if such interference should lead to unprovoked
aggression on the dominions of your Highness, in that event the British
Government would be prepared to aid you to such extent and in such manner as
might appear to the British Government necessary in repelling it, provided that
Your Highness followed unreservedly the advice of the British Government in
regard to your external relations.
I have the honour to inform Your Highness that this assurance remains in force,
and that it is applicable with regard to any territory which may come into your
possession in consequence of the agreement which your have made with me today in
the matter of the Oxus frontier.
It is the desire of the British Government that such portion of the northern
frontier of Afghanistan as has not yet been marked out should now be clearly
defined ; when this has been done, the whole of your Highness's frontier towards
the side of Russia will be equally free from doubt and equally secure." |
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