Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 The Anglo-Ottoman Convention of 1913 (29 July 1913) was an agreement between the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland which defined the limits of Ottoman jurisdiction in the area of the Persian Gulf with respect to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and the Shatt al-‘Arab. Signed, but never ratified, the long-lasting impact of the agreement was that of the status of Kuwait; the basis for both formal independence and the frontiers of modern Kuwait were established. Informal negotiations began on 29 July 1911 in a British
Ahmad Al Khalid Al Sabah minister. Sabah is a military officer with the rank of lieutenant general. He was appointed as the 7th Chief of General Staff of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces in January 2010. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense on 14 February 2012 as part of the cabinet led by Prime Minister Jaber Al Mubarak Al Sabah. Ahmad Al Sabah's tenure ended on 4 August 2013 when Khaled Al Jarrah Al Sabah was appointed both Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense. Ahmad Al Sabah is married to Wadad Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. They have four children, one son