STANFORD LU OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS TREATY WITH TURKEY AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS SIGNED AT LAUSANNE JULY 24, 19231 FINAL ACT The Governments of the British Empire, France and Italy, in agreement with the Government of Japan, being desirous of finally reestablishing peace in the East, and having invited on the one hand Greece, Roumania, the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, and also the United States of America, and on the other hand Turkey, to examine together the arrangements by which a result equally desired by all the nations might be achieved; And considering further that among the subjects falling to be dealt with by this conference the question of the Straits ought to be specially examined, Bulgaria and Russia, as littoral Powers of the Black Sea, being invited to participate in the negotiations and the decisions to be taken; And having decided that Belgium and Portugal should be allowed to take part in the discussion on the economic and financial questions which arose for those two Powers from the state of war in the East; In consequence the delegates hereafter mentioned met at Lausanne: The Most Honorable George Nathaniel, Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, FOR FRANCE: M. Camille Barrère, Ambassador of the French Republic to His Majesty the King of Italy, Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honor; M. Maurice Bompard, Senator, Ambassador of France, Grand Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor; General Maurice Pellé, Ambassador of France, High Commissioner of the Republic in the East, Grand Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honor; FOR ITALY: The Honorable Marquis Camillo Garroni, Senator of the Kingdom, 1 British Treaty Series, No. 16 (1923). Space permits printing only a part of these documents in the present SUPPLEMENT. The remainder will be printed in the next issue.—ED. 1 M. Giulio Cesare Montagna, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens, Commander of the Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy; FOR JAPAN Baron Hayashi, Junii, First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at London; Mr. Kentaro Otchiai, Jusammi, First Class of the Order of the Rising Sun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at Rome; FOR GREECE: M. Eleftherios K. Veniselos, formerly President of the Council of Ministers, Grand Cross of the Order of the Savior; M. Demetrios Caclamanos, Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Commander of the Order of the Savior; FOR ROUMANIA: M. Ion G. Duca, Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Constantine I. Diamanday, Minister Plenipotentiary; M. Constantine Contzesco, Minister Plenipotentiary; FOR THE SERB-CROAT-SLOVENE STATE M. Montchilo Nintchitch, Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Miroslav Spalaikovitch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris; M. Milan Rakitch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Sofia; Dr. Milutin Yovanovitch, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne; FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: The Honorable Richard Washburn Child, Ambassador of the United States at Rome; Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, High Commissioner of the United States at Constantinople; The Honorable Joseph C. Grew, Minister of the United States at Berne; FOR TURKEY: Ismet Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy for Adrianople; Hassan Bey, formerly Minister, Deputy for Trebizond; M. Alexander Stamboliisky, President of the Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs; M. Dimitri Stancioff, Doctor of Law, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Alexander; M. Kosta Todoroff, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade; Subsequently: M. Bogdan Morphoff, formerly Minister of Railways, Posts and Telegraphs; FOR RUSSIA: M. George V. Chicherin; M. Christian G. Rakovsky; M. Polikarp G. Mdivani; M. Watzlaw W. Vorowski; FOR BELGIUM: M. F. Peltzer, Officer of the Order of Leopold, Envoy Extraordinary and FOR PORTUGAL: M. Antonio Maria Bartholomew Ferreira, Envoy Extraordinary and As the result of meetings held between the 20th November, 1922, and the 24th July, 1923, during which certain other Powers had the opportunity of presenting their views on the questions which they considered of interest to themselves, the instruments hereafter mentioned have been drawn up:I. Treaty of peace, signed the 24th July, 1923. II. Convention respecting the régime of the Straits, signed the 24th III. Convention respecting the Thracian frontiers, signed the 24th IV. Convention respecting conditions of residence and business and V. Commercial convention, signed the 24th July, 1923. VI. Convention respecting the exchange of Greek and Turkish populations, and protocol, signed the 30th January, 1923. VII. Græco-Turkish agreement on the restitution of interned civilians and the exchange of prisoners of war, signed the 30th January, 1923. VIII. Amnesty declaration, and protocol, signed the 24th July, 1923. IX. Declaration relating to Moslem properties in Greece, signed the 24th July, 1923. X. Declaration relating to sanitary matters, signed the 24th July, 1923. XI. Declaration relating to the administration of justice, signed the 24th July, 1923. XII. Protocol relating to certain concessions granted in the Ottoman Empire, and declaration, signed the 24th July, 1923. XIII. Protocol relating to the accession of Belgium and Portugal to cer tain provisions of instruments signed at Lausanne, and declarations of these two Powers concerning such accession, signed the 24th July, 1923. XIV. Protocol relating to the evacuation of the Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian forces, and declaration, signed the 24th July, 1923. XV. Protocol relating to the Karagatch territory and to the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, signed by the British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece and Turkey on the 24th July, 1923. XVI. Protocol, signed on the 24th July, 1923, relating to the treaty, concluded at Sèvres between the Principal Allied Powers and Greece on the 10th August, 1920, concerning the protection of minorities in Greece, and to the treaty relating to Thrace concluded on the same day between the same Powers. XVII. Protocol relating to signature by the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, signed the 24th July, 1923. The originals of the above-mentioned instruments, as well as of the present act, shall remain deposited in the archives of the Government of the French Republic, and certified copies of each shall be delivered by that Government to the Powers which signed or acceded or adhered to it, as the case may be, and also to the Powers which signed the Treaty of Peace. In faith whereof the undersigned have signed and sealed the present act. Done at Lausanne, the 24th July, 1923, in a single copy. [L.S.] HORACE RUMBOLD. [L.S.] PELLE. [L.S.] GARRONI. [L.S.] G. C. MONTAGNA. [L.S.] M. ISMET. [L.S.] FERNAND PELTZER. [L.S.] A. M. BARTHOLOMEU FERREIRA. I. TREATY OF PEACE The British Empire, France, Italy, Japan, Greece, Roumania and the Serb-Croat-Slovene State, of the one part, and Turkey, of the other part; Being united in the desire to bring to a final close the state of war which has existed in the East since 1914, Being anxious to reestablish the relations of friendship and commerce which are essential to the mutual well-being of their respective peoples, And considering that these relations must be based on respect for the independence and sovereignty of states, Have decided to conclude a treaty for this purpose, and have appointed as their plenipotentiaries: HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AND OF THE BRITISH DOMINIONS BEYOND THE SEAS, EMPEROR OF INDIA: |