File 3939/1926 Pt 5 'Revision of Aitchison's Treaties: Persia, Seistan, Kerman and Persian Baluchistan' [‎168r] (329/558)

PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XXV—1921.
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rolling-stock and accessories.
e landing-stages, warehouses, steamships, canals and all means <
transport of the lake of Urmiah.
I telegraph and telephone lines established in Persia by the Tsaria't
Government , with all movable and immovable installations and
dependencies.
(e) The port of Enzeli and the warehouses, with the electrical installation
and other buildings.
Article 11.
In view of the fact that the Treaty of Turkomantchai, concluded on February
1828 (old style), between Persia and Russia, which forbids Persia, under the
t rms of Article 8 , to have vessels in the waters of the Caspian Sea, is abrogated in
ccordance with the principles set forth in Article 1 of the present Treaty, the
two High Contracting Parties shall enjoy equal rights of free navigation on that
Sea under their own flags, as from the date of the signing of the present Treaty.
Article 12.
The Russian Federal Government, having officially renounced all economic
interests obtained by military preponderance, further declares that, apart from the
concessions which form the subject of Articles 9 and 10, the other concessions
obtained by force by the Tsarist Government and its subjects shall also be regarded
as null and void.
In conformity with which the Russian Federal Government restores, as from
the date of the signing of the present Treaty, to the Persian Government, as re
presenting the Persian people, all the concessions in question, whether already
being worked or not, together with all land taken over in virtue of those concessions.
Of the lands and properties situated in Persia and belonging to the former
Tsarist Government, only the premises of the Russian Legation at Tehran and
Zergundeh with all movable and immovable appurtenances, as well as all real and
other property of the Consulates and Vice-Consulates, shall be retained by Russia.
Russia abandons, however, her right to administer the village of Zergundeh, which
was assigned by the ex-Government of the Tsar.
Article 13.
The Persian Government, for its part, promises not to cede to a third Power
or to its subjects, the concessions and property restored to Persia by virtue of the
present Treaty, and to maintain those rights for the Persian nation.
Article 14.
The Persian Government, recognizing the importance of the Caspian fisheries
for the food supply of Russia, promises to conclud - with the Food Service of the