‘A collection of treaties, engagements and sanads relating to India and neighbouring countries’ [‎95] (418/578)

PERSIA—APPENDIX NO. XXV—1921.
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of tlie Persian people, the Persian Government will find means of claiming, also,
from the English Imperialist Government compensation for the losses caused by
it in Persia.
The Soviet Government, in view of its desire to indemnify the Persian people
for the losses incurred by it, declares that:—
(1) All Persian loans owed to the Tsarist Government are null and void.
(2) Russia perpetually abstains from interference of every kind with the
revenues of Persia, e.g., the receipts from Customs, Telegraphs, Posts,
Land Revenue, etc.
(3) The Caspian Sea, after it has been cleared of the ships of the Imperialist
free-booters, the English, will be declared free for navigation by the
vessels flying the flag of a free Persia.
(4) The frontiers of Soviet Russia along Persia will be fixed according to
the free will of the inhabitants of those frontiers.
(5) All concessions of the Russian Government and those of its subjects
are null and void.
(6) The (Russian) Discount Bank of Persia, with all attached grounds, as
well as its branches in the country, are declared to be the property
of the free Persian people.
(7) The following are restored for enjoyment, and as the property, of the free
and independent Persian people :
The line of telegraphs between Meshed and Sistan as well as the telegraph lines,
Nahia-Astrabad ; the Chaussee road, Enzeli-Tehran, as well as the other Chaussee
roads and buildings connected therewith, constructed by the Russian troops in the
course of their sojourn in Persia at the time of the war of 1914-1918 ; the port of
Enzeli, with all its organisations, e.g., electric light, workshop, installations, posts,
and other instruments, etc. ; the Julfa-Tabriz railway and the branch line to
Sufiyan, together with all property, and buildings connected therewith and the
like ; similarly all Russian Offices of Post, Telegraphs and Telephones in Persia.
The payment of the claims of the employees and workmen of the aforesaid
establishments falls on the Persian people.
(8) The jurisdiction of the former Consuls is completely abolished.
(9) The Orthodox Mission of Urmiah is dissolved.
(10) All Russian subjects, resident in Persia, are liable, equally with the
local residents to the payment of all taxes and revenues, provided
that these taxes and revenues are according to law and have been
instituted for meeting the requirements of the nation.
(11) The Russian Government is ready, conjointly with the Persian Govern
ment, to discuss the question relating to the proprietary rights in
land of the Russian subjects in Persia, the method of farming and
payment of revenues and the like, and to settle it with due regard
to the interests of the two peoples.