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 Russian 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.

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Extract from a January 1919 British Foreign Office memorandum summarizing the wartime agreements regarding the Ottoman Empire - the Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement area ceded to Russia is in yellow.
The treaties as summarized in 1923 by Ray Stannard Baker , who was Woodrow Wilson ’s press secretary during the Paris Peace Conference .
Western Armenia under Russian occupation in the summer of 1916