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Issue 6

33-43

The article analyses preconditions, a course and the results of the Russian-British negotiations on Afghanistan in 1905-1907. The defeat of Russia in the Russian-Japanese war and increase of the contradictions between Germany and Great Britain became a starting point of the Russian-British political rapprochement. Russia and Great Britain aspired to come to mutual understanding on the Central Asian affairs that divided them till that time. Negotiations on the Afghan problematic took place in London and Petersburg since October 1905 till August 1907. In the center of attention of the Russian and British diplomats there were political status of Afghanistan, contents and orientation of the Afghan policy of Russia and Great Britain, questions of the organization of direct contacts of the Russian and Afghan boundary authorities. Achieving the acceptable solution of this or that question, specifying separate provisions of the Afghan convention, the Russian and British diplomats conducted the frank bargaining round conditions of future agreement. In some cases participants of negotiations found a common ground of the positions, while keeping in mind interests of their own countries. Both Englishmen and Russian managed to incorporate into the text of contract such conditions that in the maximum degree would promote fixing of their political and economic positions in Afghanistan.

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