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 Telegram from Baku, a member of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Armenia B.V. Legrand

December 3, 1920 M 935

I transmit Chicherinʹs telegram for Mdivani No. 115: “We instruct Mdivani to answer the Turks that we are sending a commission from here to negotiate with them on the conclusion of an agreement and we ask the Turkish government to inform when the commission appointed by them for this purpose will leave, and who it will consist of, and what place do they offer for negotiations. In the coming days, we will inform you who will be appointed by us to our commission.

We also ask the Turkish government to inform us what proposals it wishes to make to us for concluding an agreement. It would be desirable for us to know whether the tour [etskoy] government received the draft treaty that we worked out together with Bekir Sami and sent to Angora with Yusuf Kemal. Does the [Turkish] government consider him acceptable and how does it deal with those points of difference between us and Bekir Sami, on which the latter could not make a decision?

So far, we are limited to only this. Further instructions for Mdivani will be sent immediately. Chicherin. December 1, 20 No. 9979 ʺ.

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