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Power constructing a naval base on the islands of the east coast of the Red Sea.
This, however, shall not prevent such adjustment of the Aden frontier as may be
necessary in consequence of recent Turkish aggression.
1 1 . The negotiations with the Arabs as to the boundaries of the Arab State or
Confederation of Arab States shall be continued through the same channel as
heretofore on behalf of the two Powers.
12. It is agreed that measures to control the importation of arms into the Arab
territories will be considered by the two Governments.
1 have further the honour to state that, in order to make the agreement complete,
His Majesty’s Government are proposing to the Russian Government to exchange notes
analogous to those exchanged by the latter and your Excellency’s Government on
2()th April last. Copies of these notes will be communicated to your Excellency as
soon as exchanged.
1 would also venture to remind your Excellency that the conclusion of the present
agreement raises, for practical consideration, the question of the claims of Italy to a
share in any partition or rearrangement of Turkey in Asia, as formulated in article 9
of the agreement of 26th April, 1915, between Italy and the Allies.
His Majesty’s Government further consider that the Japanese Government should
be informed of the arrangements now concluded.
I have, &c.
E. GREY.
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Sir G. Buchanan to Sir Edioard Grey.—(Received May 17.)
(No. 711.)
(Telegraphic.)
YOUR telegram No. 1010 of 15th May. .
Minister for Foreign Affairs concurs in your proposal for conclusion of formal
agreement between the two Governments.
Petrograd, May 16, 1916.
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Sir Edward Grey to Count Benckendorff.
YoT-'E^cellencv, Foreign Office, May 23 1916.
I HAVE received from the French Ambassador m London copies of the notes
exchanged between the Russian and French Governments on the 20th ultimo, by which
your Excellencv’s Government recognise, subject to certain conditions, the arrangement
made between Great Britain and France, relative to the constitution of an Arab State
or a Confederation of Arab States, and to the partition of the territories of Syria,
Cilicia, and Mesopotamia, provided that the co-operation of the Arabs is secured.
His Majesty’s Government take act with satisfaction that your Excellency s
Government concur in the limits set forth in that arrangement, and I have now the
honour to inform your Excellency that His Majesty’s Government, on then part, in
order to make the arrangement complete, are also prepared to r ® co «^
formulated by the Russian Government and accepted by the 1 rench Government
tbp notps exchanged at Pctrograd on tbo 20tli ultimo. . r 0 ■ a
In so far, then, as these arrangements directly affect Alellencv’s
Great Britain, I have the honour to invite the acquiescence of your Excellency
Government in an agreement on the following terms :
1. That Russia shall annex the regions of Erzeroum, Ihebizond Van and Biths
up to a point subsequently to be determined on the littoral of the Black bea to the
WeSt 2° f That‘the region of Kurdistan to the south of Van and of Bitlis between Mush
Sert, 2 th] tottofX Tigris, ^re^Omar. ^crest-Uneof ^ - whud,
the frontier of the Antb^hanWW^
shall meet on the spot.