[26 January 1919]
Protest Note of the Armenia Government to Azerbaijan on Karabagh
Annex No. 5
To the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku
According to information that has reached us through private sources, the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan has decided to establish a Governor Generalship over Jevanshir, Shushi, Jebrail, and Zangezur.
I am instructed by my government to protest the above decision which is contrary to the territorial rights of Armenia.
January 26, 1919
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Tigranian
No. 129
[Republic of Armenia Archives, File No. 8]
[20 February 1919]
Protest Note of Karabagh Armenians to Allied Governments
Armenian National Council of Karabagh
20th February 1919
The Armenian General Assembly of Karabagh in its fourth sitting on 19th February 1919, having examined the response of the government of Azerbaijan to the Armenian Government, protests energetically against the clearly expressed intention of the Azerbaijan government to consider Karabagh as a part of the territory of Azerbaijan.
The Armenian population of Karabagh, basing its attitude on the right of nationalities [to self-determination], as it has been acknowledged by the Peace Conference, appeals to the public opinion of the whole world end protests energetically against this attempt on the part of the Government of Azerbaijan to overlook this right as far as Armenian Karabagh is concerned. Karabagh never has acknowledged the authority of the government of Azerbaijan within its boundaries, and never will.
The General Assembly begs the Representatives of the Allied Governments in the Caucasus as well as the Peace Conference to defend their rightful claims.
This act of protest is being addressed to the Commander of the Allied Forces at Baku, General Thomson, to the Armenian Government and finally to the Armenian Delegation at the Peace Conference.
Signed:
President
Secretary
[Republic of Armenia Archives File No. 9]
The Karabagh File, Documents and Facts, 1918-1988, First Edition, Cambridge Toronto 1988, by the ZORYAN INSTITUTE, edited by: Gerard J. LIBARIDIAN, pp. 11-12
