Note 2 — Chapter XXIV · STATISTICAL AND POLITICAL
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The clause in the Berlin Treaty relating to the Armenians is as follows:—Article 61. “La sublime Porte s’engage à réaliser sans plus de retard les améliorations et les réformes qu’exigent les besoins locaux dans les provinces habitées par les Arméniens et à garantir leur sécurité contre les Circassiens et les Kurdes. Elle donnera connaissance périodiquement des mesures prises à cet effet aux puissances qui en surveilleront l’application.”
The Armenian delegates to the Berlin Congress presented a memoir to the European Plenipotentiaries in which they set forth their cause. It is published by De la Jonquière in his Histoire de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, 1881, pp. 39–44. They also drew out a project for an Organic Regulation to be applied to the new province. It was to be administered by an Armenian Governor-General appointed by the Porte with the consent of the Powers. ↑