SOVIET INSISTENCE
OIL RIGHTS IN PERSIA refusalTTgnored (10 a.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 30. The British press gives some prominence lo the Russian attacks on the Persian Government for having refused to consider Moscow’s request tor oil concessions in northern Persia until after the war. 'the soviet viee-Oommissar foi Foreign Affairs,. (fif. Kavtzaradze, speaking at T«heran on Sunday, made it plain thai.J}!S Government did not intend to nrcfm this refusal. As the Russians occupy northern Persia tinder the joint Anglo-ftussian-Per-sian agreement of 1941. Persia hardly seems to be in a position to ignore the Soviet desires. The vice-com-missar, therefore, was able to express with confidence his belief that impediments in the way of granting the concessions would be removed.
Regarding the terms on which Russia asked for concessions, M. Kavtzaradze said the Soviet Government would ofTer Persia the oil products required by that country* on favourable terms. At the expiry of the concessions all the enterprises would pass into Persian possession.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21549, 31 October 1944, Page 3
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