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A History of

The Republic of Armenia

In Two Volumes

Vol 2

By

Edic Baghdasarian

Էդիկ Բաղդասարյան

Հայաստանի Հանրապետության

Պատմություն

(Անգլերեն)

2 հատորով

Հատոր Բ

ISBN: 978-1-927860-77-9

2020

Տորոնտո – Կանադա

www.Edic-Baghdasarian.com

A History

of the

Republics of Armenia

In Two Volumes

Including

The First Republic 1918-1920

The Socond Republic 1920-1991

The Third Republic since 1991

And

Full texts of International Treaties,

Agreements and Declarations involving Armenia

Volume 2

By

Edic Baghdasarian

Armenian Research Center

Toronto – Canada

2020

Edic Baghdasarian 2 History of Armenian Republics

Edic Baghdasarian 3 History of Armenian Republics

Table of Contents

History of the Armenian Republics ........................................................................... 9

Appendices ................................................................................................................ 9

Appendix – 1 ........................................................................................................... 11

A Short History of the The Armenian Question ...................................................... 11

The Origin And Development Of The Armenian Question During History ........... 15

Appendix – 2 ........................................................................................................... 19

The National Liberation Movement And The Armenian Question ......................... 19

A chronicle summary of the liberation struggles of the Armenian people .............. 21

Appendix – 3 ........................................................................................................... 29

The Existing Problems of The Armenian Question ................................................. 29

Appendix – 4 ........................................................................................................... 31

Texts of Treates, Agreements,declarations Associated with Armenians ................. 31

TREATY OF GULISTAN (1813) ............................ 31 TREATY OF TURKMENCHAY 1828...................... 39 TREATY OF ADRIANOPLE 1829 .......................... 45 TREATY OF PARIS ............................................. 56 THE PRELIMINARY TREATY OF PEACE, SIGNED AT SAN STEFANO 63 AGREEMENT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND BRITAIN TO MODIFY SAN STEFANO TREATY

18/30 MAY 1878 ....................................... 75 CONVENTION OF DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE BETWEEN GREAT BRITAIN AND TURKEY

WITH RESPECT OF THE ASIATIC PROVINCES OF TURKEY 77 SIGNED AT CONSTANTINOPLE, 4TH JUNE 1878 .... 77 TREATY OF BERLIN .......................................... 78 THE ARMENIAN REFORMS................................. 83 REFORM SUBMITTED TO THE SULTAN BY THE AMBASSADORS OF THE THREE POWERS

................................................................ 95

Report of Allied warning to the Ottoman government to stop the massacres of

Armenians May 29, 1915 ................................................................................................. 98

Memorandum by the Committee of Union and Progress outlining the strategy for

implementing the Armenian Genocide 1914-1915........................................................... 99

Agreement between Russia, Britain and France .................................................... 102

Sykes-Picot Agreement ......................................................................................... 103

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Decree on the “Turkish Armenia“ adopted by the Council of the People's Assembly

of the Soviet Russia ........................................................................................................ 106

PEACE TREATY SIGNED AT BREST-LITOVSK BETWEEN RUSSIA AND GERMANY,

AUSTRO-HUNGARY, BULGARIA AND TURKEY109

The Turkish-Russian Agreement, Supplementary To The Peace Treaty Concluded

Between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria And Turkey On The One Hand And

Russia On The Other hand ............................................................................................. 114

Treaty of Batum .................................................................................................... 116

Armistice of Mudros (October 30, 1918) ............................................................. 133

Historical Facts ...................................................................................................... 135

TREATY SIGNED AT SEVRES - AUGUST 10, 1920 …………...……………… 141

Wilsonian Armenia................................................................................................ 153

Wilson’s Acceptance ............................................................................................. 157

Wilson’s Border .................................................................................................... 161

Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Armenia and the RSFSR178

V.I. Lenin’s recommendation to RC(b)PCC Politbureau About Armenia .......... 179

Protocol of Final Decision of the RCFSF and the Delegation of Armenia........... 180

Fall of Kars (October 30, 1920) .......................................................................... 182

Telegram of G.V. Chicherin to the president of the Turkish Great National

Assembley and government of the Republic of Armenia ............................................... 184

Radiogram of G.V. Chicherin Foreign Affairs Commissar of RSFSR to Mustafa

Kemal president of the Turkish Great National Assembley and Karabekir commander of

Turkish Eastern Battle Front, S. Vratsian Head of the Council of Ministers of government

of the Republic of Armenia, B. V. Legran Representative of RSFSR to Armenia ......... 184

ACT ....................................................................................................................... 185

Agreement Between The Soviet Russian Federative Republic Representative and

The Government of The Republic of Armenia ............................................................... 185

Declaration of Establishment of Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia ................ 187

Telrgram of Revolutionary Committte of Armenia to V.I. Lenin about declaration

of Soviet regime in Armenia .......................................................................................... 190

V.I. Lenin’s telegram to the president of Military-revolutionary committee of

Armenia .......................................................................................................................... 191

Phrases of V. I. Lenin’s speech in 8th congress of soviets of RC(b)P fraction ..... 191

Notice of RSFSR government to Turkish government .......................................... 191

The notice of the Government of Armenia to the Government of Turkey ............ 192

Letter of Lenin to Chicherin .................................................................................. 193

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Declaration of the Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee ..................................... 194

Declaration of the Revolutionary Committee of Azerbaijani on the inseparable part

of the Karabagh, Zangezur and Nakhchivan from the Soviet Socialist Republic of

Armenia .......................................................................................................................... 195

Letter S. Kasian, Chairman of the Armenian Revolutionary Committee to N.

Narimanov, Chairman of the Azerbaijani Revolutionary Committee ............................ 196

Decree of the Armenian Revolutionary Committee on the reunification of the .... 197

mountainous Gharabagh (Karabagh) with Armenia .............................................. 197

Historical Facts ...................................................................................................... 198

Treaty of Alexandropol between Republic of Armenia and Turkey ..................... 200

Notice of Foreign Affairs Commissar of Armenian SSR to Acting Foreign ......... 205

Affairs Commissar of Turkish Grand National Assebley Ahmed Mukhtar .......... 205

Historical Facts-February Uprising ....................................................................... 206

Treaty of Moscow ................................................................................................. 209

Notice of RSFSR Foregn Affair People’s commissar to Turkish ambassador at

Moscow .......................................................................................................................... 216

TREATY OF KARS ........................................... 219

Treaty of Ankara ................................................................................................... 226

TREATY OF PEACE WITH TURKEY SIGNED AT LAUSANNE 229

Treaty of Non-Aggeression and Neutrality between Soviet Union and Turkey .... 236

Soviet territorial claims against Turkey................................................................. 239

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights ........................................................ 242

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the ........................................ 247

Crime of Genocide, 9 December 1948 ................................................................ 247

CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE

.............................................................. 247

Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes

and Crimes Against Humanity, 26 November 1968. ................................................... 251

USSR COUNCIL OF MINISTERS DECREE №4083 of December 23rd 1947.

Kremlin, Moscow ........................................................................................................... 254

Historical facts about Artsakh ............................................................................... 256

(Karabagh) ............................................................................................................. 256

COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF USSR DECREE №754 of March 10th 1948.

Moscow, Kremlin ........................................................................................................... 262

ARMENIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ... 265

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DECLARATION ON PROCLAMATION OF THE NAGORNO KARABAKH

REPUBLIC .................................................................................................................... 268

The War of 1991-1994 .......................................................................................... 270

DECISION OF THE SPECIAL SESSION OF THE NKAO COUNCIL OF

PEOPLES DEPUTIES OF XX SESSION ..................................................................... 280

Referendum ........................................................................................................... 281

Zheleznovodsk Declaration ................................................................................... 284

Joint Statement of the Heads of State in Tehran.................................................... 287

The Bishkek Protocol ............................................................................................ 288

Cease-fire Agreement ............................................................................................ 289

Joint Declaration of the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Azerbaijan and the

Russian Federation, Meiendorf Castle, Moscow Province, ............................................ 290

Appendix - 5 .......................................................................................................... 296

How did the Turkey-Nakhijevan 10 kilometers border emerge?........................... 296

Appendix - 6 .......................................................................................................... 300

A Short History of the Armenian Diaspora ........................................................... 300

Appendix -7 ........................................................................................................... 309

Leaders of Armenia (1918–present) ..................................................................... 309

Presidents of the National Assembly of Armenia .................................................. 311

Prime Minister of Armenia .................................................................................... 314

List of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Armenia ................................................... 319

Defence minister of Armenia ................................................................................ 320

Armenian Interior Ministers and RA Police Chiefs .............................................. 320

Appendix -8 ........................................................................................................... 322

National Heros of Armenia ................................................................................... 322

Armenian heroes of the Soviet Union ................................................................... 323

The Armenian Soviet Generals who participated in the World War II ................. 328

List of Armenian Generals of the USSR ............................................................... 331

Some Armenian officers at the service of Ottoman Turkey .................................. 334

Armenian generals in Russian Empire Army ........................................................ 337

Appendix -9 ........................................................................................................... 339

Armenian population ............................................................................................. 339

Appendix -10 ......................................................................................................... 360

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The Hidden Armenians ......................................................................................... 360

Appendix -11 ......................................................................................................... 366

A Short History of Armenian Repatriation ............................................................ 366

Committee for Cultural Relations with Armenians Abroad .................................. 374

Armenian Diaspora And The Ministery of Diasporia .......................................... 377

COUNTRIES WITH NO DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ... 381 COUNTRIES WITH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS ........ 382

Appendix -12 ......................................................................................................... 383

List of important Armenian Laws ......................................................................... 383

Appendix -13 ......................................................................................................... 393

Orders, decorations, and medals of Armenia......................................................... 393

NATIONAL HERO OF ARMENIA ........................ 393 ORDER OF THE COMBAT CROSS ....................... 394 CIVIL ORDERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF ARMENIA ... 394 TIGRAN METS ORDER[ ................................... 396 VARDAN MAMIKONIAN ORDER ....................... 396 ST. MESROP MASHTOTS ORDER....................... 396

Bibliography ................................................................................................................... 399