Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan respecting the District of Zanghezour
![]() Signing of the agreement between Azerbaijan and Armenia in Tiflis on 23 November 1919 | |
Signed | 23 November 1919 |
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Location | Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi) |
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The Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan respecting the District of Zanghezour[1] was a peace agreement between the short-lived Armenian and Azerbaijani republics signed on 23 November 1919 in Tiflis (present-day Tbilisi) and brokered by Georgia. The peace treaty came as a result of an unsuccessful Azerbaijani military campaign to absorb the Zangezur region controlled by local Armenians, in order to reach and support the Azerbaijanis in control of neighbouring Nakhchivan.
Despite the peace agreement, Azerbaijan in March 1920 again moved its forces westward to attempt to capture Zangezur, however, was stopped due to an Armenian
Background
In 1918, after attaining independence from Russia, the newly established Armenian and Azerbaijani republics engaged in a
Zangezur was under the control of a local Armenian council in 1918 which successfully resisted Azerbaijani–Ottoman, and later Azerbaijani–British incursions until its incorporation into Armenia in 1919. In 1920, the region was invaded by units of the
Nagorno-Karabakh, similarly to Zangezur, was self-governed by its Armenian population since the collapse of Russian authority, however, its key city of Shusha was occupied by Azerbaijani–Ottoman forces in late 1918.[10] After the Ottoman withdrawal from the South Caucasus, the British under the command of General Thomson supplanted their forces in the region and in temporarily assigning Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan helped subjugate the local Armenian council to assent to Azerbaijani authority pending the result of the Paris Peace Conference.[11][12] In March 1920, the local Armenians revolted with the support of Armenia, leading to the destruction of the Armenian quarter of Shusha—by April, Armenian forces were in control of the countryside, though were eventually ousted from the region by the Red Army.[13] In 1921, the region was set to become an autonomy within Soviet Azerbaijan.[14]
Situation in Zangezur
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From 1918, Armenian partisan commanders
Following the British withdrawal from the South Caucasus, the
Terms of the agreement
In Tiflis on 23 November 1919, prime minister
- That the government of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to stop the present hostilities and not resort to force of arms.
- That the Governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to take effective measures for repairing and re-opening, for peaceful traffic, the roads leading into Zangezur.
- That the Governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to settle all controversies, including boundaries, by means of peaceful agreements pending the decisions of the conference convened in the following paragraph. In case this is not possible, then to select a neutral party as arbiter, whose decisions, both governments agree to abide by, said neutral party for the present being col. James C. Rhea, U.S. Army.
- That the Governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to immediately appoint an equal number of delegates to meet in conference in Baku on Wednesday, 26 November, and to sojourn to Tiflis on 4 December, where the meetings of the conference will discuss all questions which are the cause of dispute or friction between the two Governments and will have full authority to settle all such questions by agreement or arbitration.
- That this agreement becomes effective on the date of signing and becomes permanent when ratified by the parliaments of the two governments, and the prime ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan hereby bind their respective governments to faithfully support and carry out all the details of the above agreement, in evidence of which they place their respective signatures to this agreement, …[23][24]
Aftermath
As a result of the agreement, Azerbaijan withdrew its forces from Zangezur, however, alleged that the
References
- ^ Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan respecting the District of Zanghezour, signed at Tiflis, 22 November 1919.
- ^ de Waal 2003, pp. 127–128.
- ^ Smele 2015, p. 135.
- ^ a b Saparov 2014, p. 95.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 129.
- ^ Hovannisian 1982, p. 69.
- ^ Hovannisian 1996a, pp. 317–318.
- ^ Saparov 2014, p. 9.
- ^ Der Matossian 2020, p. 49.
- ^ Saparov 2014, p. 91.
- ^ a b Saparov 2014, p. 94.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 128.
- ^ a b Saparov 2014, pp. 94–95.
- ^ Saparov 2014, p. 111.
- ^ Gerwarth & Horne 2012, p. 179.
- ^ Broers 2019, p. 4.
- ^ de Waal 2003, p. 80.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1982, p. 213.
- ^ Hovannisian 1982, p. 239.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1982, pp. 217.
- ^ Hovannisian 1982, pp. 210–211.
- ^ Hille 2010, p. 167.
- ^ a b Hovannisian 1982, pp. 223.
- ^ Hille 2010, pp. 167–168.
- ^ Gharibyan 2014, p. 226.
- ^ Hovannisian 1996a, p. 149.
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- Broers, Laurence (2019). Armenia and Azerbaijan: Anatomy of a Rivalry. Edinburgh, UK. OCLC 1127546732.)
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