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12 . With a view to fighting unemployment and eliminating it, the Crown
lands and pi operty belonging to reactionary elements who have escaped from
Azerbaijan to ie distributed among the peasants. The latter class also to be
helped thiough agt icultural banks in order that they may be able to buy the lands
which the landowners are prepared to sell at reasonable prices.
13 In order to ameliorate the living condition of the public, the artisans
and guilds to be helped.
14. With a view to ameliorating the living conditions of labourers, laws,
including Labourers’ Insurance Law, to be passed and enacted.
15. The Government of Azerbaijan, who attach great importance to hygiene,
will provide free means of treatment for the public.
16. The Government of Azerbaijan, who believe in private ownership, will
support all measures showing initiative and which are aimed at increasing wealth
and finance.
17. The Government of Azerbaijan admits full respect towards freedom of
thought, faith and conscience.
18. The Government of Azerbaijan admits equal rights for various
nationalities resident in Azerbaijan, such as the iVrmenians, Kurds, Assyrians,
along with the inhabitants of Azerbaijan, and will allow them to study their
native tongue.
19. The Persian Azerbaijan Government recognises the Central Government
and will carry out its orders so long as it does not contravene the laws and decisions
of the National Consultative Assembly of Azerbaijan.
Appendix B.
The Inauguration of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.
WEDNESDAY, the 21st Azar, 1324 (12th December, 1945), will be considered
an historic date in the history of the valiant Azerbaijanis, and future generations
will celebrate this victorious day. On that day the nation of Azerbaijan, by
founding their National Assembly in a very honourable manner, proved to the
world that they are mature and self-dependent and can decide-their own destinies
and that they are the rightful persons to manage their own houses. On Wednesday
morning the Deputies of Tabriz and those of other towns and districts gathered
together in the Assembly’s public hall. Great crowds gathered m the street to
watch the opening of the Majlis. At 9 a.m. a public session was held at which
about eighty Deputies were present. M. Nizam-ud-Dauleh Rail i w as elected as
President of the Assembly and opened the first public session of the Azerbaijan
National Assembly by making a short inaugural speech. The l " ter “^ '7|“‘f °^
of the Assembly were read out by Vulla i, were fully explained by Pishehvari, an
were all passed. The presidential body of the Assembly ^ s the n elected by a
secret vote. Haji Mirza Ali Shabistan was elected as Speaker and MM. Padigan
and Judat were elected as his deputies; and Azima and Vu la ^ as se .
The Speaker then pronounced the desire of the majority in conne
Pishehvari’s premiership and appointed him to form a Governme .
afternoon of the same day the Cabinet was formed and piesented to the
Assembly :—
1 Sayyid Jafar Pishehvari: Prime Minister.
Dr. Javid : Minister of the Interior.
Jaafar Kavian : Minister of the National Forces.
Dr. Mahtash : Minister of Agriculture.
Muhammad Birja : Minister of Education.
Dr. Urangi : Minister of Health
Ghulam Riza Ilhami: Minister of Finance.
Yusuf Azima : Minister of Justice.
Kabiri: Minister of P.T. and Roa ^ s F •
Rqsuli • Minister of Commerce and Economics
K ' Minister of Labour will be appointed later.
Zainul AW,. Q,.,m ™
M. Ibrahim as Public Prosecutor of Azerbaijan b^isner^ for
that, as they had no intention to sepa Ministel , f or Foreign Affairs will be
Affairs will be appointed, and tha . % th Prime Minister submitted
the Persian Minister for Foreign Affan- a majority vote .
the Cabinet s programme to the Assemuiv,