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<br />. <br /> <br />, <br />,~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />'. <br /> <br />0-0 2 ~ 0 1 <br /> <br />to pass down." 70 League of l!ations. Treaty Series, <br />pp. 31q, 317, 320. <br /> <br />This agreement is important in showing reoognition of established uses. <br /> <br />A treaty between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Turkey, sir,ned <br />January 8, 1927, is based upon the prinoip1e that eaoh party is entitled to half <br />the water in frontier rivers (Art. 2). Artioles 5 to 8 provide that each party <br />may construct artifioial works for power and irrigation but that all plans must <br />be approved by a Mixed Commission. These works must not interfere with the free <br />flow of the water to whioh the other party is entitled and any damage caused <br />must be compensated. H. A. Smith, The Economio Uses of International Rivers <br />(1931) 208. <br /> <br />In the Exchange of Notes between Great Britain and Egypt, regulating the <br />use of waters of the River Nile for irrigation purposes, signed at Cairo on May <br />7, 1929, the President of the Counoi1 of Ministers at Cairo (Mohamed Mahmoud <br />Pasha) stated, <br /> <br />"2. It is realized that the develcpment of <br />the Sudan requires a quantity of the Nile water <br />greater than that which has been so far utilized <br />by the Sudan. As your Exoellency is aware, the <br />Egyptian Government has alv~ys been anxieus to <br />enoourage such development, and will therefore <br />continue that policy, and be willing to agree with <br />His Majesty's Government upon such an inorease of <br />this quantity as does not infringe Egypt's natural <br />and historical rir,hts in the waters of the Nile <br />and its requirements of agricultural extension, <br />subject to satisfaotory assuranoes as to the safe- <br />guarding of Egyptian interests as detailed in later <br />paragraphs of this note. <br /> <br />"3. The Egyptian Government therefore aooept <br />the findings of the 1925 Nile Conmission, whose <br />report is annexed hereto, and is oonsidered an <br />integral part of the present agreement. They propose, <br />however, that, in view of the delay in the oonstruo- <br />tion of the Gebel Aulia Dam. which, under paragraph <br />40 of the Nile Commission's Report, is regarded as <br />a counterpart of the Gezira scheme, the dates and <br />quantities of gradual withdravmls of water from the <br />Nile by the Sudan in flood months as given in Artiole <br />57 of the Commission's Report be modified. . . <br />These quantities are based on the Nile Commission's <br />Re~ort, and are therefore subjeot to revision as <br />foreseen therein. <br /> <br />"4. It is further understood that the following <br />arrangements will be observed in respeot of irriga- <br />tion on the Nile, <br /> <br />.. . . , . . .. <br /> <br />'-7- <br />