San Remo conference
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The San Remo conference (19-26 April 1920, San Remo, Italy) of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council determined the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East by the victorious powers. The decisions of the conference mainly just confirmed (e.g. concerning Palestine) those of the First Conference of London (February 1920). Britain received the mandate for Palestine and Iraq, while France gained control of Syria including present-day Lebanon. The boundaries of all these territories were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers" [1] (http://www.therightroadtopeace.com/infocenter/Heb/SamRemoRes.html) subsequently, in fact not completely finalized until four years later. To enforce its mandate, France subsequently intervened militarily at the Battle of Maysalun to depose the nationalist Arab government which King Faisal had meanwhile established in Damascus.
The conference broadly reaffirmed the terms of the Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement of 16 May 1916 for the region's partition and the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917, under which the British government had undertaken to favour the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine without prejudice to the rights of the territory's then Arab majority. The conference's decisions were embodied in the stillborn Treaty of Sèvres (Section VII, Art 94-97). As this treaty never came into effect, the conference's decisions were only finally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922 and the 1924 Treaty of Lausanne.
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See also
Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties
- Paris Peace Conference, 1919
- Faisal-Weizmann Agreement
- 1949 Armistice Agreements
- Camp David Accords (1978)
- Madrid Conference of 1991
- Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace (1994)
- Oslo Accords (1993)
- Camp David 2000 Summit
- Peace Process in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs
- List of Middle East peace proposals
- International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict
External links
- Text of San Remo Resolution (http://www.therightroadtopeace.com/infocenter/Heb/SamRemoRes.html)
- Treaty of Sevres, articles 94 and 95 recapitulating the San Remo Resolution (http://www.hri.org/docs/sevres/part3.html)
- view the text of the Palestine Mandate (http://www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/1918p/sanremo.html)
- Palestine under the British Mandate, 1923-1948 (http://www.passia.org/palestine_facts/MAPS/1923-1948-british-mandate.html) (map)
References
- David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace (New York, Henry Holt, 1989)
- Leonard Stein, The Balfour Declaration (London, Valentine Mitchell, 1961)nl:Conferentie van San Remo