Treaty with Turkey and other Instruments
signed at Lausanne July 24, 1923
FINAL ACT
The Governments of the British Empire, France
and Italy, in agreement with the government of Japan, being desirous of
finally re-establishing peace in the East, and having invited on the one hand
Greece, Romania, the Serb-Croat-Slovena State, and also the United States of
America, and on the other hand Turkey, to examine together the arrangements by
which a result equally desired by all the nations might be achieved;
And considering further than among the
subjects falling to be dealt with by this Conference the question of the
Straits ought to be specially examined, Bulgaria and Russia, as littoral
Powers of the Black Sea, being invited to participate in the negotiations and
the decisions to be taken;
And having decided that Belgium and Portugal
should be allowed to take part in the discussion on the economic and financial
questions which arose for those two Powers from the state of war in the East;
In Consequence the delegates hereafter
mentioned met at Lansanne:
For The British Empire:
The Most Honourable George Nathaniel,
Marquess Curzen of Kedleston, K.G., G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs;
The Right Honourable Sir Horace George
Montagu Rumbold, Baronet, G.C.M.G., High Commissioner at Constantinople;
For France:
M. Camille Barrere, Ambassador of the French
Republic to His Majesty the King of Italy, Grand Cross of the National Order
of the Legion of Honour;
M. Maurice Bompard, Senator, Ambassador of
France, Grand Officer of the National Order of the Legion of Honour;
General Maurice Pellé, Ambassador of France,
High Commissioner of the Republic in the East, Grand Officer of the National
Order of the Legion of Honour;
For Italy:
The Honourable Marquis Camillo Garroni,
Senator of the Kingdom, Ambassador of Italy, High Commissioner at
Constantinople, Grand Cross of the Orders of Saints Maurice and Lazarus and of
the Crown of Italy;
M.Giulio Cesare Montagna, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at Athens, Commander of the Order of Saints
Maurice and Lazarus, Grand Officer of the Crown of Italy;
For Japan:
Baron Hayashi, Junii, First, Class of the
Order of the Rising Sun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at
Londor;
Mr. Kentaro Otchisi, Jusammi, First Class of
the Order of the Rising Sun, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at
Rome;
For Greece:
M. Eleftherics K. Veniselos, formerly
President of the Council of Ministers, Grand Cross of the Order of the Saviour;
M. Demetrios Caclamanos, Minister
Plenipotentiary at London, Commander of the Order of the Saviour;
For Roumania:
M. Ion G. Duca, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
M. Constantine I. Diamandy, Minister
Plenipotentiary
M. Constantine Centzesco, Minister
Plenipotentiary;
For the Sere-Groat-Slovens State:
M. Montehilo Nintehiteh, Minister for Foreign
Affairs;
M. Miroslav Spalaikovitch, Euvoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris;
M. Milan Rakitch, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Sofia;
Dr. Milutin Yuvanovitch, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne;
For the United States of America:
The Honourable Richard Washburn Child,
Ambassador of the United States at Rome;
Rear-Admiral Mark L. Bristol, High
Commissioner of the United States at Constantinople;
The Honourable Joseph C. Grew, Minister of
the United States at Berne;
For Turkey:
Ismet Pasha, Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Deputy for Adrianople;
Dr. Riza Nour Bey, Minister for Health and
for Public Assistance, Deputy for Sinope;
Hasan Bey, formerly Minister, Deputy for
Trebizond;
For Bulgaria:
M. Alexander Stamboliisky, President of the
Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs;
M. Dimitri Stancioff, Doctor of Law, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at London, Grand Cross of the Order
of Saint Alexander:
M. Kosta Todoroff, Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Belgrade;
Subsequently:
- Begdan Morphoff, formerly Minister of
Railways Posts and Telegraphs;
For Russia:
M. George V. Chicherin;
M. Christian G. Rakovsky;
M. Polikarp G. Mdivani;
M. Watzlaw W. Vorowski;
For Belgium:
M.F. Peltzer, Officer of the Order of
Leopold, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne;
For Portugal:
M. Antonio Maria Bartholomew Ferreira, Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Berne, Commander of the Order of
Saint James and the Sword.
As the result of meetings held between the 20th
Novembre, 1922, and the 24th July, 1923, during which certain other
Powers had the opportunity of presenting their views on the questions which
they considered of interest to themselves, the Instruments hereafter mentioned
have been drawn up:
- Treaty of Peace, signed the 24th
July, 1923.
- Convention respecting the Régime of the
Straits, signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Convention respecting the Thracian
Frontiers, signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Convention respecting Conditions of
Residence and Business and Jurisdiction, signed the 24th July,
1923.
- Commercial Convention, signed the 24th
July, 1923.
- Convention respecting the Exchange of Greek
and Turkish Populations, and Protocol, signed the 30th January,
1923.
- Graeco-Turkish Agreement on the Restitution
of Interned Civilians and the Exchange of Prisoners of War, signed the 30th
January, 1923.
- Amnesty Declaration, and Protocol, signed
the 24th July, 1923.
- Declaration relating to Moslem Properties
in Greece, signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Declaration relating to Sanitary Matters,
signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Declaration relating to the Administration
of Justice, signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Protocol relating to certain Concessions
granted in the Ottoman Empire, and Declaration, signed the 24th
July, 1923.
- Protocol relating to the accession of
Belgium and Portugal to certain provisions of Instruments signed at Lausanne,
and Declarations of these two Powers concerning such accession, signed the
24th July, 1923.
- Protocol relating to the Evacuation of the
Turkish territory occupied by the British, French and Italian Forces, and
Declaration, signed the 24th July, 1923.
- Protocol relating to the Karagatich
territory and to the islands of Imbros and Tenedos, signed by the British
Empire, France, Italy Japan, Greece and Turkey on the 24th July,
1923
- Protocol, signed on the 24th
July, 1923, relating to the Treaty, concluded at Sèvres between the
Principal Allied Powers and Greece on the 10th August, 1920,
concerning the Protection of Minorities in Greece, and to the Treaty
relating to Thrace concluded on the same day between the same Powers.
- Protocol relating to signature by the
Serb-Croat-Slovene State, signed the 24th July, 1923.
The originals of the above-mentioned
Instruments, as well as of the present Act. shall remain deposited in the
archives of the Government of the French Republic, and certified copies of
each shall be delivered by that Government to the Powers which signed or
acceded or adhered to it, as the case may be, and also to the Powers which
signed the Treaty of Peace.
In faith whereof the Undersigned have signed
and sealed the present Act.
Done at Lausanne, the 24th July,
1923, in a single copy.
(L.S.) Horace Rumbold.
(L.S.) Pellé
(L.S.) Garroni
(L.S.) G.C. Montagna
(L.S.) K. Otchiai
(L.S.) E.K. Veniselos
(L.S.) Const. Diamondy
(L.S.) Const. Contzesco
(L.S.) M. Ismet
(L.S.) Dr. Ryza Nur
(L.S.) Hassan
(L.S.) B. Morphoff
(L.S.) Stanciofe
(L.S.) Fernand Peltzer
(L.S.) A. M. Bartholomeu Ferreira
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