Uqair Protocol of 1922

Uqair Protocol of 1922

The Uqair Protocol was issued on December 2, 1922, in response to the Wahhabi Bedouin raiders, operating from Nejd, under Abdul Aziz ibn Abdul Rahman ibn Saud. The British High Commissioner to Baghdad, Sir Percy Zachariah Cox, met with ibn Saud and the British Political Agent to Kuwait, Major John More, at Uqair where he imposed the Uqair Protocol which defined the boundaries between Iraq and Nejd; and between Kuwait and Nejd.

See also:

*History of Iraq
*History of Kuwait
*History of Nejd
*History of Saudi Arabia
*Saudi-Iraqi neutral zone


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