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Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement

The Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement was a 26 April 1916 letter from Russian Foreign minister Sergey Sazonov to French ambassador to Russia Maurice Paléologue regarding Western Armenia and the Anglo-French Sykes–Picot Agreement. The agreement for Russia influence over Western Armenia was given in return for Russian assent to the Sykes-Picot arrangement.[1][2] The agreement took place on the first anniversary of the Treaty of London.[3]

Russia was allocated the vilayets of Erzurum, Trebizond, Bitlis and Van;[3] much of which was under Russian occupation at the time.[3]

Richard G. Hovannisian, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 3, No. 1 (Jan., 1968), pp. 145-168

The Allies and Armenia, 1915-18