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TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO V. M. MOLOTOV FOR THE POLITBUREAU OF THE R.C.P.(B.) C.C.

Comrade Molotov:

Re: the draft agreement concerning the Dashnaks which
Joffe initialled in
Riga. [1] I quite agree with Chicherin’s arguments and propose that the agreement should be
resolutely and immediately rejected. I propose the immediate
passage by phone of this resolution: “The draft agreement
signed by Joffe and other comrades in Riga concerning the Dashnaks is hereby resolutely and immediately
rejected.”

I believe Chicherin is absolutely right when he says that such an agreement is not only wrong, but dangerous.

Lenin

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Notes:
[1]
A reference to the draft agreement with the nationalist Armenian
Dashnaktsutyun party of July 14, 1921, which provided for the integration with Soviet Armenia of Turkish territory inhabited
by Armenians and the establishment of an “independent”
Armenia. On July 26, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee rejected this draft agreement.