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Treaty
of Sevres
The Peace Treaty of Sevres was signed
between the Allied and Associated Powers and Turkey in Sevres
on August 10, 1920. The full treaty is comprised of many parts
and sections and several hundred articles. Below is the text
of the treaty which deals with Armenian lands.
View
full text of Peace Treaty of Sevres (external
link)
1958
- Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign
Arbitral Awards - The "New York" Convention
(external link)
President
Wilson's acceptance letter for drawing the frontier.
President
Wilson's letter defining the border between Armenia and Turkey.
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SECTION
VI.
ARMENIA.
ARTICLE
88.
Turkey,
in accordance with the action already taken by the Allied
Powers, hereby recognizes Armenia as a free and independent
State.
ARTICLE
89.
Turkey
and Armenia as well as the other High Contracting Parties
agree to submit to the arbitration of the President of the
United States of America the question of the frontier to be
fixed between Turkey and Armenia in the Vilayets of Erzerum,
Trebizond, Van and Bitlis, and to accept his decision thereupon,
as well as any stipulations he may prescribe as to access
for Armenia to the sea, and as to the demilitarization of
any portion of Turkish territory adjacent to the said frontier.
ARTICLE
90.
In
the event of the determination of the frontier under Article
89 involving the transfer of the whole or any part of the
territory of the said Vilayets to Armenia, Turkey hereby renounces
as from the date of such decision all rights and title over
the territory so transferred. The provisions of the present
Treaty applicable to territory detached from Turkey shall
thereupon become applicable to the said territory.
The
proportion and nature of the financial obligations of Turkey
which Armenia will have to assume, or of the rights which
will pass to her, on account of the transfer of the said territory
will be determined in accordance with Articles 241 to 244.
Part VIII (Financial Clauses) of the present Treaty.
Subsequent
agreements will if necessary, decide all questions which are
not decided by the present Treaty and which may arise in consequence
of the transfer of the said territory.
ARTICLE
91.
In
the event of any portion of the territory referred to in Article
89 being transferred to Armenia, a Boundary Commission whose
composition will be determined subsequently, will be constituted
within three months from the delivery of the decision referred
to in the said Article to trace on the spot the frontier between
Armenia and Turkey as established by such decision.
ARTICLE
92.
The
frontiers between Armenia and Azerbaijan and Georgia respectively
will be determined by direct agreement between the States
concerned.
If
in either case the States concerned have failed to determine
the frontier by agreement at the date of the decision referred
to in Article 89, the frontier line in question will be determined
by the Principal Allied Powers, who will also provide for
its being traced on the spot.
ARTICLE
93
Armenia
accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the Principal
Allied Powers such provisions as may be deemed necessary by
these Powers to protect the interests of inhabitants of that
State who differ from the majority of the population in race,
language, or religion.
Armenia
further accepts and agrees to embody in a Treaty with the
Principal Allied Powers such provisions as these Powers may
deem necessary to protect freedom of transit and equitable
treatment for the commerce of other nations.
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