Sardarapat movement: Armenian people will never allow return of liberated territories

Maindorf Declaration is an agreement signed by Presidents of Republic of Azerbaijan, Republic of Armenia and Russian Federation on November 2, 2008 in Maindorf (outskirts of Moscow). Under the document, the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan took commitment “to contribute to enhancing the situation in South Caucasus and ensuring peace, stability and security via political settlement of Nagorno Karabakh conflict based on the principles and norms of international law and decisions and documents deriving thereof.” Parties reiterated the significant role of continuing Minsk Group’s mediatory efforts in the frameworks of Madrid Document (dated Nov. 29, 2007). They also agreed that “peaceful conflict settlement should be accompanied by legally binding international guarantees.”

The Treaty of Kars was a "friendship" treaty between the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey on the one side, and the Governments of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia (SSRA), the Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic (ASSR), and the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia (SSRG), on the other side, According to Article I, the parties considered as null and void the treaties concluded between the Governments which have previously exercised sovereign rights over territory actually forming part of the territory of the Contracting Parties and concerning the above-mentioned territories, as well as the treaties concluded with third states concerning the Transcaucaucasus Republics. It is understood that the Turkish-Russian Treaty signed in Moscow on March 16, 1921 (1337) will be exempted from the terms of this Article. Article II was very important for Turkey, since according to it, the Contracting Parties agreed not to recognize any treaty of peace or other international act imposed upon one any of them against its will. In virtue of this agreement, the Governments of the Socialist Soviet Republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia agree not to recognize any international act concerning Turkey which has not been recognized by the National Government of Turkey, actually represented by its Grand National Assembly. (By the term Turkey is meant, in the present Treaty, the territories included in the Turkish National Pact of January 28, 1920 (1336), developed and proclaimed by the Ottoman Chamber of Deputies in Constantinople and communicated to the press and to all States). For its part, the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey agreed not to recognize any international act concerning Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia that may not be by the respective Governments of those countries, actually represented by the Soviets of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. The treaty was undersigned by Askanaz Mravian, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs; Poghos Makintsian, People's Commissar for Internal Affairs on the side of he Government of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia; by Behboud Shahtahtinskiy, People's Commissar for State Control, on the side of he Government of the Government of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan; Shalva Eliava, People's Commissar for War and Navy and Alexander Svanidze, People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and People's Commissar for Finance, on the side of the Government of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Georgia; Kiazim Kara Bekir Pasha, Deputy to the Grand National Assembly from Adrianople and Commander of the Eastern Front, Veli Bey, Deputy to the Grand National Assembly from Bordour, Mouhtar Bey, former Undersecretary of State for Public Works, Memdouh Shevket Bey, Turkish Plenipoteniary Representative in Azerbaijan on the side of the Government of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and Jacques Hanetzky, Plenipotentiary Representative in Lithuania, on the side of the Government of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic.