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Declaration Of Independence

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STATEMENT OF İNDEPENDENCE After Azerbaijan was seperated between the Russian and Persian Empires in 1813 and 1828, the following period saw the development of educational activities and national deliberateness, the national movement, begun by intellectuals, and the path to state independence. None of this was frank. The path was strewn with the victim of thousands of people, with imprisonment and exile from which no-one returned, and other suffering. The opportunity to achieve independence arose after the overthrow of Tsarism during the February Revolution and the formation of the Provisional Government in 1917. The seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, the overthrow of the Provisional Government, the later withdrawal from the war and the peace …show more content…

The document says that Azerbaijan, located in the south and east Trans-Caucasus, is an independent state. The memorandum, submitted by the Azerbaijani delegation to the Paris Peace Conference in November 1918, sets out the territory of the republic as follows: Baku Province (Baku district, Javad district, Goychay district, Shamakhi district, Quba district, Lənkərən district together with the Baku Circle); Yelizavetpol (Gəncə) Province (Gəncə district, Javanshir district, Nukha district, Arash district, Shusha district, Karyagi Jabrayil district, Zangezur district, Qazakh district [one-third of these territories which consisted of mountainous areas, were disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia; New Bayazid district, Irevan Province Nakhchivan district, Sharur-Daralayaz district, Surmeli district, a part of Echmiadzin and Alexandropol districts; Tbilisi Province Borchali district, a part of Tbilisi and Signakh districts; Zagatala region, Dagestan Province a part of the Kur and Samur areas, also Derbent city and its suburbs together with part of Gaytar-Tabasaran Province. The selvedges in the north were determined by the River Samur and the Greater Caucasus range. The border with Georgia in the west was the same as the present borders of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The only discrepancy was the boundary between Borchali and Qazakh regions; this passed …show more content…

The delegation, led by Alimardan bey Topchubashov, left for Paris after holding a number of meetings with the representatives of different countries in Istanbul. The Azerbaijan issue was discussed at the Council of Allied Powers on 2 May 1919 for the first time. The delegation of Azerbaijan held several meetings. On 23 May a member of the British delegation, L. Mallet, met Topchubashov and they discussed political, military and economic issues. On 28 May Topchubashov met a member of the US delegation, Henry Morgenthau, during the first half of the day and President Woodrow Wilson during the second half. The memorandum of Azerbaijan was presented to the president of the USA. The government of the USA noted that cooperation.with.Azerbaijan.would.be.effective. In late June the British government adopted a decision on the withdrawal of troops from Azerbaijan. It was not possible to implement the Italian mandate in Azerbaijan in place of the British one. At the suggestion of the British foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, the independence of Azerbaijan was known de-facto in the assembly of the Supreme Council of the Paris Peace Conference on 11 January 1920. Following this, some countries opened their delegate offices in Baku

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