NO ONE CANCELLED SEVRE TREATY ON ARMENIA
PanARMENIAN.Net
11.05.2007 17:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "After conclusion of the Sevre Treaty on August
10, 1920 borders with independent Armenia had to be set by a neutral
mediator – the United States. In this view, representatives of UK,
France and Italy appealed to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson for an
arbitration award on the Armenian-Turkish border. Mr Wilson outlined
Armenia’s territory of 110 square km," Ara Papyan, orientalist,
specialist in international law and Armenia’s former Ambassador to
Canada told a news conference in Yerevan.
"The arbitration award on the Armenian-Turkish border is
an international agreement which is not subject to appeal and
restriction of time. The big Parisian Four addressed a joint note to
the U.S. President in order to determine Armenian and Turkish borders
on the territory of Van, Bitlis, Erzrum and Trapezund," Papyan said.
The fate of the arbitration award is not bound with the ratification of
the Sevre treaty, according to him. "Westerman’s committee responsible
for determination of borders was formed in the U.S.
Congress. The map and award affixed by the state seal marking
the significance of the documents are kept in the U.S. Congress
Library. Another committee dealing with the demarcation of borders
at the site was headed by Henry Morgenthau, the U.S. Ambassador to
Turkey in the times of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire,"
the Armenian diplomat said.
However, Papyan noted, November 29 the 11th Red Army entered
Armenia and the First Republic stopped existence as an international
element. "That is why the conditions of the Sevre and Lausanne treaties
were not fulfilled. The USSR was not the assignee of the Republic of
Armenia," he said.