On June 2, after details of the Armenian victory in the Yerevan province had been received in Batum, Vehib and Halil assented to a minor territorial rectification. In the Alexandropol uezd, a strip of land between Djadjour Station and Mount Aragatz (Alagiaz) in the west and the Hamamlu-Yerevan road in the east, about 640 square kilometres, was relinquished by Turkey "for the sake of the friendly relations that have begun." This, however, was the maximum concession. Then, congratulating the Armenian delegates on the victory of Silikian, Pirumian, and Dro, General suggested that a military pact, more than anything else, would misspell the distrust between the two peoples. He proposed that a ten-thousand-man Armenian force unite with Ottoman troops for a drive into Persia. Alexander Khatisian, claiming that the exhausted Armenian nation could fight no more, declined that Turkish invitation. 43
At noon on June 4, 1918, Khatisian, Kachaznouni, and Papadjanian signed the first international act on behalf of the Armenian government. "The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the Imperial Ottoman Government and the Republic of Armenia" consisted of fourteen articles and three annexes:
- Article I announced the establishment of peace and eternal friendship.
- Article II identified the new boundary between Transcaucasia and Turkey. It ran along the eastern limits of the Akhaltsikh and Akhalkalak uezds, into the heart of Alexandropol uezd, atop Mount Aragatz, then into Etchmiadzin uezd as far as a road 6.4 kilometres west of the village of Etchmiadzin. From there the boundary continued along a line parallel to the Alexandropol-Joulfa railway until it reached a village 6.4 kilometres south of Yerevan, and finally moved southeast-ward, leaving much of Sharur-Daralagiaz and most of Nakhichevan to Turkey, and attained the village of Alidjin, located on the Araxes River along the former Russo-Persian border.
- Article III stipulated that the Ottoman government would be informed about any Armeno-Azerbaijani agreement on the mutual boundaries of the two republics.
- Article IV bound the Ottomans to give armed assistance at the request of the Armenian government for the maintenance of law and order.
- Article V committed the Armenian government to tale active measure to prohibit the formation of armed bands on its territory and to disperse all those which sought asylum there.
- Article VI provided for the unhindered religious and cultural freedom of Moslems in Armenia. The name of the Ottoman sultan would be recited in the public prayers of the Moslems.
- Annex 3 of the treaty defined these freedoms in detail
- Article VII arranged for future consular and commercial conventions. Until such time, diplomacy and commerce would be conducted on the basis of the "most-favoured nation" principle.
- Annex 1 defined the privileges and obligations of the two contracting parties.
- Article VIII approved low tariffs and provided for use of one another's railways
- Article IX sanctioned immediate restoration of postal and telegraph communications between the two countries.
- Article X dealt with inhabitants along the frontier and border traffic.
- Annex 2 included detailed regulations on the subject.
- Article XI required the Armenian government to apply every possible means to evacuate all Armenian forces from Baku and to guarantee that no clashes would occur during that operation.
- Article XII certified that all Brest-Litovsk treaty provisions not incompatible with the present agreement were to be honoured by both signatories.
- Article XIII stipulated that troops occupying territory beyond the frontiers determined in Article II would be withdrawn after the treaty had been signed.
- Article XIV specified that the treaty would come into effect upon exchange of ratifications, which was to tale place in Constantinople within one month. 44
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