Acuerdo Sazónov-Paléologue

El Acuerdo Sazonov-Paléologue fue una carta escrita el 26 de abril de 1916 del Ministro de Asuntos Exteriores ruso, Sergey Sazonov, hacia el embajador francés en Rusia, Maurice Paléologue, sobre Armenia occidental y el Acuerdo anglo-francés Sykes-Picot . El acuerdo sobre la influencia de Rusia sobre la Armenia occidental se dio a cambio del consentimiento ruso al acuerdo Sykes-Picot.[1][2]​ El acuerdo tuvo lugar durante el primer aniversario del Tratado de Londres.[3]

Extracto de un memorando del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores británico de enero de 1919 que resume los acuerdos de guerra relacionados con el Imperio Otomano: el área del Acuerdo Sazonov-Paléologue cedida a Rusia está en amarillo.
Los tratados resumidos en 1923 por Ray Stannard Baker, quien fue secretario de prensa de Woodrow Wilson durante la Conferencia de Paz de París .
Armenia occidental bajo ocupación rusa en el verano de 1916

A Rusia se le asignaron las provincias (vilayets) de Erzurum, Trebisonda, Bitlis y Van;[4]​ gran parte del territorio el cual estaba bajo ocupación rusa en ese momento.[3]

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  1. Spencer Tucker (2005). World War I: Encyclopedia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 1142-. ISBN 978-1-85109-420-2. 
  2. The Armenian Review. Hairenik Association. 1956. «The Sazonov-Paleologue agreement of April 26, 1916 between Great Britain and France and the Sykes–Picot agreement of May 16, 1916 between Great Britain and France which together made up the Anglo-Franco-Russian accord of 1916...» 
  3. a b Edward Mead Earle (1923). Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A Study in Imperialism. Macmillan. p. 292. «Accordingly, on April 26, 1916 the first anniversary of the Treaty of London with Italy France and Russia signed the secret Sazonov-Paleologue Treaty concerning their respective territorial rights in Asiatic Turkey. Russia was awarded full sovereignty over the vilayets of Trebizond, Erzerum, Bitlis, and Van a vast area of 60,000 square miles (about one and one-fifth times the size of the State of New York), containing valuable mineral and petroleum resources. This handsome prize put Russia well on the road to Constantinople and in a fair way to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake. And at the moment the treaty was signed the armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas were actually overrunning the territory which Russia had staked out for herself». 
  4. Edward Mead Earle (1923). Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway: A Study in Imperialism. Macmillan. p. 292. «Accordingly, on April 26, 1916 the first anniversary of the Treaty of London with Italy France and Russia signed the secret Sazonov-Paleologue Treaty concerning their respective territorial rights in Asiatic Turkey. Russia was awarded full sovereignty over the vilayets of Trebizond, Erzerum, Bitlis, and Van a vast area of 60,000 square miles (about one and one-fifth times the size of the State of New York), containing valuable mineral and petroleum resources. This handsome prize put Russia well on the road to Constantinople and in a fair way to turn the Black Sea into a Russian lake. And at the moment the treaty was signed the armies of the Grand Duke Nicholas were actually overrunning the territory which Russia had staked out for herself». 

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