Comrade Lezhava  
Copies - to Comrade Smilga and Comrade Sheinman

I request that a meeting be urgently convened consisting of Comrades Lezhava, Smilga and Sheinman for the purpose of examining the question of prohibiting Azneftekom and other organisations from conducting independent trade in petroleum products in Persia and Constantinople.

Report - by Comrade Lezhava on Wednesday 7 December at the Council of Labour and Defence.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars

V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

to the text signed by

V. I. Lenin

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Written 5 December 1921

First published in 1933

in Lenin Miscellany XXIII

Printed from the typewritten copy