Wednesday, February 22 2017 17:30

ArmInfo.Head of "Heritage" Party Zaruhi Postanjyan presented to the National Assembly of Armenia a bill "On the non-recognition and condemnation of the illegal  provisions of the anti-Armenian treaties of Moscow and Kars of March  16 and October 13, 1921".

As the bill states, the Republic of Armenia condemns and does not  recognize the treaty signed on March 16, 1921 in Moscow between the  Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and the  Government of the RSFSR on Russian-Turkish agreement of "friendship  and brotherhood", in particular, illegal provisions on Armenian  statehood.

The Republic of Armenia condemns and do not recognize the papers  which ratify forces occupation of Armenian lands acoording to the  treaty signed on October 13 of the same year, the treaty on  friendship between Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian Soviet  Socialist Republics from one side and Turkey from the other side,  signed with participation of RSFSR.  

In addition, the Republic of Armenia, as is stated in the draft law  recognizes and condemns the ratification of treaties between Kemalist  Turkey and the Government of the RSFSR of March 16, 1922, and to the  Government of Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic of March 20, 1922.  At the same time, the Republic of Armenia confirms its right to  restore Armenian statehood in the historical lands captured by  Azerbaijan and Turkey.

"The provisions of the Sevres Treaty on Armenian historic lands and  also the decision of the US President Woodrow Wilson of November 22,  1920, the Republic of Armenia recognizes as a legal and is taking  steps of implementation", resumes the bill.To recall, according to Moscow Treaty, the RSFSR recognized Turkey  within the boundaries proclaimed by the "Turkish National Pact" in  accordance with the provisions of the Moudros truce. The treaty  summed up the international law section of the statement between the  Republic of Armenia, the Azerbaijan SSR and Turkey. Adopted without  the participation of the Azerbaijani SSR, the Armenian SSR and the  Georgian SSR, found the north-eastern border of Turkey with these  states, securing the territorial gaining of Turkey by the  Alexandropol (Gyumri) treaty, with the exception of the city of  Alexandropol and the eastern part of the former Alexandropol district  of Yerevan, a province that Turkey is obliged to pass to Armenian  SSR, the northern part of the Batumi region, which Turkey undertook  to pass the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, and the territory of  the former Nakhchivan and Sharur- Daralagсzskogo districts of Yerevan  province, which Turkey undertook to pass under the protectorate of  Azerbaijani SSR. According to the agreement, the southern part of the  Batumi region (Artvin province), former Kars region, the former  Surmalin County and the western part of the former county  Alexandropol of Erivan Province remained within Turkish. The followed  treaty of Kars on October 1921, which is identical to the Moscow  Treaty between the Kemalists, on the one hand, and the Transcaucasian  Soviet Socialist Republic, which entered in 1922 into the TSFSR and  in its composition in the USSR, on the other, completed the legal  registration of state borders, existing nowadays.