Enver Pasha offered to surrender all ambitions in the Caucasus in return for recognition of the Ottoman reacquisition of the east Anatolian provinces at Brest-Litovsk at the end of the negotiations.

The Armenians pressured the TDFR to refuse and acknowledged the existence of a state of war between themselves and the Ottoman Empire.

[5] Hostilities resumed, and the Ottoman troops overran new lands to the east, reaching the prewar borders.

[4] the Ottomans extended their demands to include Tiflis as well as Alexandropol and Echmiadzin; they also wanted a railroad to be built to connect Kars and Julfa with Baku.

In the surrendered territories the majority of the 1,250,000 pre-war inhabitants had been Armenians, with more than 400,000 in the ceded sector of Yerevan province alone.