Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award is 90

PanARMENIAN.Net - The 90th anniversary of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award on establishing a border between Armenia and Turkey is marked on November 22.

On November 22, 1920, based on the Treaty of Sevres Woodrow Wilson released the Arbitral Award, which gave Armenian people 100,000 square kilometers of land in Western Armenia’s Bitlis, Van, Erzerum, and Trapizond regions and established a border between Armenia and Ottoman Empire. The United Armenia would have a territory of 160,000 square kilometers.

On the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the Arbitral Award, representatives of Armenian intelligentsia from Armenia and Diaspora made a statement, which specifically reads: “The Arbitral Award signed by the U.S. President, Secretary of State and affixed by the Great Seal of the U.S., has become a part of internal law of the U.S., which does not need to be ratified. On December 6, 1920, the U.S. President officially transferred the Arbitral Award to the Paris conference. It was signed by all the states, which signed the Treaty of Sevres, thus recognizing indisputable rights and title of the Republic of Armenia to the territories allocated to Armenia. Thus, the Arbitral Award is an international competent claim to Turkey, which is signed by representatives of many states, the governments of which have shouldered the obligation of fulfillment of the November 22, 1920, Arbitral Award.”