The Frontier between Armenia and Turkey as Decided by President Woodrow Wilson

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THE FRONTIER
BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY
AS DECIDED BY
WOODROW
PRESIDENT WILSON
NOVEMBER 22, 1920
ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE
PRESIDENT WILSON'S LETTER TO THE
SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE
ALLIED POWERS
DECISION OF PRESIDENT WILSON

Introductory Note
On April 26, 1920, the Supreme Council of the Allied Powers, in
conference at San Remo, addressed to the President of the United States
of America an invitation to act as arbitrator in the question of the bound-
ary between Turkey and Armenia, to be fixed within the four vilayets of
Erzerum, Trebizond, Van and Bitlis.
On May the llth, 1920, President Wilson accepted the invitation
of the Supreme Council.
OnAugust 10, 1920, aTreatyof Peace was signed atSevres by Pleni-
potentiary Representatives of the British Empire, France, Italy and
Japan, and of Armenia, Belgium,, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Roummiia
and Czechoslovakia, of the one part; and of Turkey, of the other part,
which Treaty contained, among other provisions, the following:
ARTICLE 89: Turkey and Armenia, as well as the other High
Contracting Powers, agree to submit to the arbitration of the Presidentof
the United States of America the question of the frontiers to be fixed
betweenTurkeyandArmenia in the Vilayetsof Erzerum, Trebizond, Van
and Bitlis, and to accept his decision thereupon, as well as any stipula-
tions 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.
On October 18, 1920, the Secretariat General of the Peace Confer-
ence, acting under the instructions of the Allied Powers, transmitted to
President Wilson an authenticated copy of the above mentioned Treaty.
On November 22, 1920, President Wilson affixed his seal to his
decision delineating the boundaries between Turkey and Armenia.
This decision with a covering letter to the President of the Supreme
Council was communicated under date of November 24, 1920, through
the American Ambassador in Paris to the Secretariat General of the
Peace Council.
President Wilson's letter and decision was as follows:
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