TEMPLATE LETTER

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Dear  [whom ever you are writing to]

[First paragraph express your concern to the specific abuse you have
witnessed, with a reference to where or when you observed the abuse. Please
be as polite and as courteous as you can.]

May I respectfully emphasize that this geographical location, as a whole,
has been known to the entire
civilized world for over 3 millenniums only as the "Persian Gulf" and any
other reference to the contrary is inaccurate and under present
international laws illegal.

The National Geographic Society of the USA, the premier source for all
matters geographic, only refers to the Persian Gulf by that name:

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/plates.html?id=7700

This is also the only term used by the U.S. Department of State:

http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2422.htm  or http://www.state.gov/p/nea/ci/c2404.htm

And the President of the United States of America on each and every
occasion has publicly referred to the PERSIAN Gulf, not "the Gulf" or
anything else.

Most importantly, the United Nations with 22 Arab member states has on two
occasions officially declared the name of the waterway to the south of Iran
as the Persian Gulf.  The first announcement was made through the document
UNAD, 311/Qen on March 5, 1971, and the second was UNLA 45.8.2 section C, on
August 10, 1984. Persian Gulf is also the recognized name by the British
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN).

The following are links to the United Nations Geographical maps of the world
and the Persian Gulf region. Please take time to view them and notice that
the UN refers to this body of water as the Persian gulf.

http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/iran.pdf
http://www.un.org/Depts/dhl/maplib/docs/escwa.pdf
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/map/profile/qatar.pdf

I've submitted the above links in order to support this position and clear
any confusion as to what to call the Persian Gulf. I also hope this has been
only an unfortunate oversight on your part of your and that it will be
corrected immediately.

I look forward to your reply and thank you very much for your attention to
this important matter.

[On first occasion i would suggest you leave it at this. follow it up if
there is no feedback, and if there is and it is not a quick apology with
promise of a remedy, and instead an excuse, then you can follow it up with
arguments in letter template 2]

Please contact me if you need more information with regards to this topic.

Sincere Regards

[your name etc.]