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    ARMENIAN INTELLECTUALS DEMAND THAT 1921 MARCH 16 MOSCOW TREATY BE INVALIDATED

    Noyan Tapan
    Armenians Today
    Mar 16 2006

    YEREVAN, MARCH 16, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The Treaty of
    Sevres concluded by Europe and Japan with Armenia and sultan Turkey
    on August 10 1920 was invalidated by the shameful Russian-Turkish
    Treaty concluded 85 years ago, on March 21 1921, in Moscow. In
    accordance with the Treaty of Sevres, Turkey was obliged to give
    back more than 90 thousand sq.km. to Armenia from the occupied
    lands. Rafael Hambartsumian, Executive of the National Council of
    Armenian Intellectuals, declared this at the March 16 intellectuals'
    meeting at RA National Academy of Sciences.

    Armenian political parties' and compatriot unions' representatives
    who were present at the meeting, touching upon the historical
    facts of concluding the treaty, mentioned that the main goal of
    the Russian-Turkish illegal bargain was to keep Armenian and Greek
    territories annexed to Turkey, to preserve the state of Azerbaijan
    established in 1918 for the Caucasian Tatars and to conclude the
    Armenian Genocide by this: to kill and deport the rescued Eastern
    Armenians from their historical homeland and to annihilate the Republic
    of Armenia.

    The Russian-Turkish Treaty of Moscow was signed without the presence
    of the third, Armenian party, which was considered by historians
    and lawyers illegal from point of view of the international law
    norms. According to historians, today it can be fully considered
    illegal at international judicial instances.

    The participants of the intellectuals' meeting made a statement at
    the end of the event demanding that RA National Assembly consider
    illegal and invalid the Russian-Turkish treaty of 1921 and invalidate
    the Kars Treaty of 1921 October 13 compulsed by this bargain to the
    Soviet Armenia by Soviet Russia.

    The meeting participants also made another statement applying
    to representatives of Russian Embassy in Armenia, in particular,
    demanding that the "position to be adopted by Russia towards the
    Russian-Turkish Treaty of Moscow be considered a precondition of
    Armenian-Russian proper relations, a question to invalidate the Treaty
    be raised before the Russian State Duma".

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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