ArmInfo.The implementation of the clauses of the Treaty of Sevres known to us and concerning Armenia seems impossible today. The Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, academician Ruben Safrastyan, expressed a similar opinion to ArmInfo.
"It is clear that this will require the political will of all the countries that signed it. And while this will is not there and is not foreseen, there is no sense to assess the chances of its implementation. But the Armenian people should always remember the existence of an international document confirming its right to statehood for the historical territory of its habitation - the Armenian Highlands, "he noted.
According to Safrastyan's estimates, the importance of the Treaty of Sevres for Armenia today lies precisely in this circumstance, this fact. And this international document, according to his forecasts, will definitely be needed by Armenia in the period when the country starts trying to really solve its own historical problems.
August 10 marks the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Sevres. According to the agreement signed between the Entente countries and the states that joined them and the government of the Ottoman Empire, Armenia received access to the Black Sea and a territory of 150 thousand square/km. The treaty, however, did not enter into force, and it was replaced by the treaty signed in 1923 in Lausanne.
The demand for the Treaty of Sevres, according to the academician, is by no means completed with Armenia and the Armenian problems, given that the modern borders of the Middle East were determined precisely in 1920 in Sevres. In Sevres, the right of the Kurdish people to independence was also recorded. A right not yet reflected in any other international treaties.
"In the light of the constant Middle East transformations and restructuring, the emergence in the future of the need to sign a new international document defining the borders of the Middle East, a new, sovereign order in the Middle East, should by no means be excluded. The acquisition of statehood by the Kurdish people, in my opinion, is irreversible and it is the Treaty of Sevres that is quite capable of significantly accelerating this process, "the academician summed up.