Embassy of the Republic of Western Armenia in the Argentine Republic
Buenos Aires, August 11, 2026

Yesterday, August 10, marked the 106th anniversary of the signing of the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres. It was one of the most important milestones of the post-war legal system and enshrined the principle of restorative justice with regard to the Armenian people.

On the occasion of this important anniversary, the Embassy of the Republic of Western Armenia considers it its duty to present the following important clarifications of Public International Law in order to clarify the political and legal reality governing the destiny of our indigenous people.

I. Sovereign Individual Recognition at Sèvres and the Legal Equality of States

It is an indisputable legal and historical truth that the State of Armenia, internationally recognized in 1920, was recognized individually and sovereignly by each state that chose to express such recognition within the scope of its international authority.

When that recognition was confirmed by a large number of Powers of global significance, the State of Armenia was formally invited to sign the Treaty of Sèvres.

In that process, Armenia participated and was represented on terms of strict legal equality with all the High Contracting Parties to the treaty, thereby establishing its irreversible international legal personality.

II. Legal Realism Instead of Nostalgia: The Doctrine of International Law in 2026

The authorities of the Republic of Western Armenia are not guided by nostalgia for a period that existed in the past, nor are they romantic idealists attempting to disregard factual reality in favor of national patriotic aspirations.

On the contrary, this Government is strictly guided by the political and legal reality of Public International Law in force in 2026.

Jurisprudence unequivocally establishes that:

1. The international recognition of the State of Armenia in 1920 continues to retain its full legal force and does not cease as a result of the passage of time or de facto occupation.

2. Woodrow Wilson’s Arbitral Award of November 22, 1920, retains its full enforceability. It constitutes a binding norm of Public International Law for Armenia, Turkey, all the Powers that facilitated and signed the acceptance of that Award, as well as all states that subsequently recognized it.

3. The emergence in 1991 of a new independent state in the Caucasus, established as the successor to the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic with a portion of our territory, is from the outset devoid of procedural legal capacity to demand the return of territories lying beyond the 29,743 square kilometers constituting the boundaries of its post-Soviet jurisdiction.

4. Consequently, the existing, inviolable, and inalienable right over the western provinces belongs exclusively to the indigenous people of Historical Armenia.

This collective political subject has decided to preserve state continuity by establishing the legal successor state of the Armenian State of 1920 under the institutional name of the Republic of Western Armenia.

III. An Appeal to the Diaspora Leadership and the Rejection of Citizenship

A strict and clear question must be addressed to the social and political circles leading Diaspora organizations.

The continued denial or suppression of the continuing legal force of the Armenian State of 1920, as well as the failure to recognize that all direct descendants of the victims of the Turkish genocide are de jure citizens of that state and, today, by virtue of legal succession, citizens of the Republic of Western Armenia, constitutes a conceptual error with disastrous consequences.

The skepticism and inaction of Diaspora leadership circles directly produce three destructive consequences:

• Geopolitical Defenselessness

It leaves the post-Soviet republic of 1991 in a state of complete legal vulnerability and total isolation by restricting the national discourse to the framework of mutilated and besieged borders.

• Renunciation of Rights

It means denying the exiles their own status as full Armenian citizens, reducing the legal basis of the state claim to merely the emotional status of refugees.

• Complicity with the Perpetrator

It secures and legitimizes the material appropriation of our historical provinces by the Turkish state.

The silence of the Diaspora operates as legal consent, allowing this deprivation to take place and, consequently, making its administrators complicit in the ultimate success of the genocide perpetrated against our ancestors, our forefathers, and the entire Armenian people.

The Republic of Western Armenia reaffirms its unchanged institutional course.

The 1920 map is our certificate of title, while sovereign citizenship is the legal means of enforcing it.

We call upon the entire Armenian people to break the chains of communal inaction, register in the National Register of Citizens, and embrace the new approach of the twenty-first century: a scientifically organized indigenous people that refuses to sign its own disappearance and applies international law to recover what rightfully belongs to it.

WE ARE ALL WESTERN ARMENIA.

Dr. Guillermo A. Karamanian
Ambassador of the Republic of Western Armenia to the Argentine Republic

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