MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
's-Gravenhage, April 9, 1968
Your Highness,
I have the honour to inform Your Highness that in view of the excellent relations
existing between our two countries and with regard to the increasing number of Netherlands
nationals, residing in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, Her Majesty's Government
has expressed the desire to establish consular relations between the Sultanate of
Muscat and Oman and the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is therefore with great satisfaction
that I have learned, following the interview which Your Highness has graciously granted
to Her Majesty's Ambassador in Baghdad in January 1968, that Your Highness has consented
to an exchange of letters establishing such relations.
On behalf of Her Majesty's Government I, therefore, have the honour to propose to
Your Highness the establishment of consular relations between the Kingdom of the Netherlands
and the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman, on a basis of reciprocity.
It is the intention of Her Majesty's Government that a member of Her Majesty's Embassy
in Baghdad shall be charged in a consular capacity with the performance of these consular
duties. It also suggests that he be granted general permission to visit the Sultanate
of Muscat and Oman at any time that his presence may be required in order to discharge
his consular tasks.
Likewise Her Majesty's Government shall be pleased and honoured to receive a consular
representative which Your Highness may desire to charge with consular duties in the
Kingdom of the Netherlands on behalf of the Sultanate.
If Your Highness can agree to these proposals, I suggest that this letter and Your
letter in reply thereto shall constitute an arrangement in this matter to take effect
as from the date of the said reply.
Accept, Your Highness, the assurance of my highest consideration.
(sd.) J. LUNS
Dr. J. M. A. H. Luns
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Sultan Said bin Taimur,
Sultan of Muscat and Oman,
Salalah,
Dhofar
