G. K. ORDZHONIKIDZE
Baku via Rostov
5 May 1920
To be delivered through responsible persons; upon delivery, inform
the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic via Sklyansky.

The Central Committee obliges you to withdraw units from the territory of Georgia to the border and to refrain from advancing on Georgia.

After negotiations with Tiflis, it is clear that peace with Georgia is not excluded.
* Printed from a typewritten copy. At the top of the telegram there is a note: "Most urgent (under the responsibility of the telegraph duty commissars) via Rostov to Baku, to the location of Comrade Ordzhonikidze."

Immediately report all the most precise data on the insurgents*.
On behalf of the Politburo
of the Central Committee
Lenin.
Stalin.