‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎94] (417/578)

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XCiv PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XXY—1921.
Persian and Russian Nations. All Russian subjects who may have been guilty of
unlawful actions and violent behaviour towards the Persian population, shall be
visited with the full rigours of the Revolutionary Laws.
The Soviet Government will, further, make all possible efforts, on its part, for
securing the complete evacuation of Persia, by the armies of Turkey and England.
I confidently hope that the time is approaching when the nations will compel their
Governments to put an end to the miseries suffered by the Persian people, and that
the latter itself will (then) be enabled to freely develop its forces within the limits
of its own territories.
However it may be, the Council of the People’s Commissaries considers itself as
entitled to such relations only with the Persian people as are based on (mutual)
consent and respect among nations.
Trotsky,
Commissary for Foreign Affairs.
Annex II.
Dated the 26th June 1919.
Monsieur le Ministre,
. ^ his letter No - 137 ’ dated 14th January 1918, published, during the same year
m the issue No. 11 of the organ of the Central Executive Committee of the All
Russian Council of Workmen, Soldiers and Peasants, the late People’s Commissary
for Foreign Affairs communicated the principles underlying the policy of Soviet
Russia m relation to Persia.
In pursuance of the principles set forth in the above letter, with regard to the
perpetual abrogation of all the treaties and conventions which the Soviet (Tsarist ?)
Government of Russia had forcibly imposed upon Persia, or which were in anta
gonism with the real independence and integrity of Persia, or which limited or
restricted the free growth and realisation of the wishes of the Persian people con-
cernmg the occupied territories and the frontier rivers, the People’s Commissariat
for Foreign Affairs to the Government of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet
Republic again expresses its full readiness at the present moment to enter into
negotiations with the Persian Government for the conclusion of fresh treaties,
consular agreements and other compacts, based on the principles of freedom of
discussion and mutual respect of the two nations.
Whereas, North Persia has been laid waste by the armies of the former Russian
Governments, as well as by the operating military columns of the Turks and English,
and the responsibility of this devastation is entirely attributable to the Capitalist
Governments of England, Turkey and Tsarist Russia, Soviet Russia, which bears
towards Persia, oppressed by the Allied Imperialist Governments, feelings of good
will, is desirous of indemnifying Persia, in an equitable manner, for the losses
incurred by her owing to the Russian parties, and trusts that, relying on the support