Mutual Agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan (1919)

This agreement made and concluded at Tiflis this twenty-third day of November, Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, by and between Prime Minister Khatissian, representing the Government of Armenia, and Prime Minister Ussubbekoff, representing the Government of Azerbaijan, witnesseth:

1. That the Government of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to stop the present hostilities and not resort again to force of arms.

2. That the Government of Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to take effective measures for repairing and re-opening, for peaceful traffic, the roads leading into Zangezur.

3. That the Government of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to settle all controversies, including boundaries, by means of peaceful agreements pending the decisions of the Conference convened in the following paragraph. In case this is not possible, when to select a neutral party as arbiter, whose decisions both Governments agree to abide by, said neutral party for present being Colonel James C. Rhea, United States Army.

4. That the Government of Armenia and Azerbaijan pledge themselves to immediately appoint en equal number of delegates to meet in conference in Baku on Wednesday, November 26th, and to adjourn to Tiflis on December 4th, where the meetings of the conference will continue, unless, by common agreement, they are transferred elsewhere. This conference will discuss all questions which are the cause of dispute of friction between the two Governments and will have full authority to settle all such questions by agreement of arbitration.

5. That this agreement becomes effective on the date of signing and becomes permanent when ratified by the Parliaments of the two Governments, and the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan hereby bind their respective Governments to faithfully support and carry out all the details of the above agreements, in evidence of which they place their respective signatures to this agreement, in triplicate, in English and Russian, at Tiflis, this twenty-third day of November, Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, one copy of each being delivered to the representative of the Allied High Commissioner, one of each to the Prime Minister of Armenia, and one of each to the Prime Minister of Azerbaijan.

Al. Khatissian Prime Minister of Armenia

N.A. Ussubbekoff Prime Minister of Azerbaijan

Signed in the presence of:

J.C. Rhea, Colonel, G.S., U.S. Army, Acting Allied High Commissioner.

Gegechkori, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, Acting President.