Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907
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The Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 was an accord signed between the United Kingdom and Imperial Russia, in which Britain proposed to partition Persia into two distinct "spheres of influence" with the north awarded to Czarist Russia and the south to Britain. The central area was to be a "buffer" or "neutral zone".
The Accord, which had 5 articles, was signed without the participation or knowledge of the Persian government, and was thus eventually met with a bitter response from Iran's parliament. Iran was officially informed of the Accord later, on September 16, 1907.
The Accord was signed in St. Petersburg, and also involved the fate of Afghanistan and Tibet.
This Accord was not unrelated to the 1919 Treaty signed later on.
[edit] References
- Adelson, R. London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. 1995. p.59-62.
Siegel, Jennifer. Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.
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