"مجموعة من المعاهدات والالتزامات والسندات المتعلقة بالهند والدول المجاورة" [‎٢‎٠‎٠] (٥٧٨/٥٢٣)

cc AFGHANISTAN—APPENDIX NO. VIII—1921.
AFGHANISTAN.
APPENDIX No. VIII.—[/See page 225.]
Treaty of Alliance between Turkey and Afghanistan. —Moscow, March 1,
1921*
(Ratifications exchanged at Kabul, October 20, 1922.)
(Translation.)
(The blessed clauses which bind together two brother Governments of the
East united in faith and interest.)
In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate !
The Turkish and Afghan Governments, convinced that they are bound to
gether by sincere ties of sympathy, are imbued with one desire and one sacred
purpose, and each possess the same high moral and material interests, and that
the happiness or misfortune of one State will redound to the happiness or mis
fortune of the other, and recognising that it is no longer possible that they should
remain disconnected and isolated as in the past, and that certain historical duties
necessarily devolve upon them at this moment, when is seen with infinite thank
fulness that an era of awakening and deliverance of the Eastern world has begun.
These two brother States and nations, therefore, observing that as with the
members of one body the troubles and afflictions of one of the parties must affect
and pain the other, have resolved to transfer their age-long moral unity and natural
alliance to the political sphere, to bring about a state of material and official alli
ance, and, in the name of the future welfare of the whole East, to conclude a Treaty
of Alliance as a prelude to future welfare.
For this purpose Delegates have been nominated—
Youssouf Kemal Bey, Commissioner (Minister) of Economic Affairs ; and
Dr. Reza Nour Bey, Commissaire of Public Instruction, Members of
the Government, on behalf of the Government of the Grand National
Assembly of Turkey ; and
His Highness General Muhammad Wali Khan, Ambassador Extraordi
nary on behalf of Afghanistan ;
Who, having communicated their full powers, found to be in due and proper
order, have accepted the following Articles -
Article I.
The Turkish nation, in possession of an independent existence for such time
as God wills, considers it to be a sacred duty to recognise the independence, in
^Signed in the Turkish and Persian languages.