Consideration was given to the question of what Sir Andrew Ryan should say in reply to a suggestion by Fuad that there was an agreement between the Sheikh of Qatar and Ibn Jiluwi (possibly before 1916), whereby the sheikh formally accepted Ibn Saud's sovereignty over Jebel Naksh. The existence of any such agreement is categorically denied by the Sheikh, and the meeting agreed that as a first step Sir Andrew Ryan should at some convenient opportunity ask the Saudi Government for further information about this alleged agreement; saying that H.M.G. have been unable to trace anything of the kind and that in seeking for further information they do not necessarily admit that if the existence of an agreement were established they could recognise it as a valid instrument.[43]