Стр. 30 - Azərbaycan xalçaları

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Source: Документы внешней
политики СССР. М.,1959, т.3
The Borders Of Russia And Turkey
(According To Treaty Of March 16, 1921 Between RSFSR And Turkey)
der Article 10, the agreed parties made commitments not to permit in their territories the crea-
tion of other governments, organizations, or groups making claims to govern in some areas
of their lands, and groups aiming to fight against other countries. Articles 11, 12, and 13 were
about the issues regarding the citizens of the governments joining the treaty. Under Article
14, within six months of the treaty, a special agreement concerning the refugees of 1918-1920
was to be signed. Articles 15 and 16 considered the declaration of total amnesty regarding the
crimes committed because of the military operations on the Caucasus front and the return of
military and civil captives. Articles 17 and 18 were about the communication and economic re-
lations between the agreed parties. Under Article 19, the parties committed themselves to sign
a consular convention within three months. Article 20, the last, oversaw the ratification of the
treaty. It was noted that the exchange of the ratification decrees would be realized in Iravan.
With the exclusion of articles 6, 14, 15, 16, 18, and 19, which entered into force right after the
treaty was signed, the treaty was supposed to enter into force at the time when the ratification
decrees were exchanged. Ratification exchange of the Kars treaty took place on September 22,
1922. The working period of the treaty was not restricted (Map 14). After the foreign borders
of the South Caucasus were ratified, Soviet Russia began taking inter-Republic relations under
its control. In 1922, the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (TSFSR) was estab-
lished. TSFSR also created conditions to expand the territories of other republics, especially
Armenia, at the expense of the territories of Azerbaijan (Map 15).
As was clearly stated in the February 4, 1999 decree of Heydar Aliyev, the President of the
Republic of Azerbaijan, regarding the 75th anniversary of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Re-
public, “The ruling forces of Armenia were able to tear away some lands of Nakhchivan to
combine with its lands with the help from their guardians in Moscow. In 1929, with the deci-
Map 14