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<br />001392 <br /> <br />"Official Gazette" of the East African Protectorate, June 7, 1916. <br /> <br />5. Tigris and Euphrates; Upper Jordan and Yarmuk <br />Great Britain and France - Deoember 2;, 1920. <br /> <br />This treaty, whioh is a general boundary oonvention, oontains the provision <br />that the British and Frenoh Governments will nominate an international commission <br />to study any plan of irrigation oontemplated in the Frenoh mandated territory <br />(upper ripariun), the exeoution of which would diminish in any considerable <br />degree the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates at the point where they enter <br />Mesopotamia (lower riparian) (Art. 3). The dependence of all agrioulture in <br />Mesopotamia on irrigation from the Tigris and Euphrates ie a matter of oommon <br />knowl.e dge. There is aocordingly implied here the prinoiple that the development <br />of any new uses in the upper riparian state must take full oognizanoe of pre- <br />existing established uses in the lower. <br /> <br />The treaty further provides that experts nominated by the Administrations <br />of Syria and Palestine will study the question of the employment of the waters <br />of the Upper Jordan and Yarmuk and of their tributaries for the purposes of ir- <br />rigation and the development of hydro-eleotrio power. In this oonnection two <br />principles are set up. The first establishes "the needs of the territories under <br />the Frenoh mandate" (in part upper riparian and in part oontiguous) as reoeiving <br />prior satisfaotion. Seoondly the Frenoh Government is to give its representatives <br />"the most liberal instruotions for the employment of the surplus of these waters <br />for the benefit of Palestine" (in part lower riparian and in part contiguous) <br />(Art. 8). <br /> <br />Nouveau Reoueil General de Traites, 3me serie XII, 582 <br /> <br />6. Lakes Huleh and Tibe,rias and the Jo 1an River <br />Great Britain and France - February ~, 1922 <br /> <br />This agreement whioh was the outoome of the investigation authorized by the <br />two Governments (Deoember 23, 1920) on the Upper Jordan and Yarmuk, makes pro- <br />vision for the oonstruotion of a dam by the Government of Palestine to raise <br />the level of the lakes Huleh and Tiberias, the second of whioh is international. <br />The principle of the priority of uses in the French mandated territory (in part <br />upper riparian and in part contiguous) is reaffirmed in the following terms I . <br />"Any existing rights over the use of the waters of the Jordan by the inhabiJ:;ants <br />of Syria shall be maintained unimpaired." <br /> <br />Martens, Nouveau Reoueil General de Traites, 3me serie, xvii, 213 <br /> <br />-8- <br />