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The 'San Remo^[1] conference' was an international meeting of the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council, held in Sanremo, Italy, in 19-26 April 1920. It determined the allocation of Class "A" League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.
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The decisions of the conference mainly confirmed those of the First Conference of London (February 1920), and broadly reaffirmed the terms of the Anglo-French Sykes-Picot Agreement of 16 May 1916 for the region's partition and the Balfour Declaration of 2 November 1917.^[2] Britain received the mandate for Palestine and Iraq, while France gained control of Syria including present-day Lebanon.
The precise boundaries of all territories were left unspecified, to "be determined by the Principal Allied Powers"^[3] and were not completely finalized until four years later. The conference's decisions were embodied in the stillborn Treaty of Sèvres (Section VII, Art 94-97). As Turkey rejected this treaty, the conference's decisions were only finally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922 and the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. To enforce its mandate, France subsequently intervened militarily at the Battle of Maysalun to depose the nationalist Arab government which King Faisal had meanwhile established in Damascus.

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See also

Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

References

Footnotes

External links

See also

★ Mandate for Palestine

★ Zionism

★ History of Israel

Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

★ Paris Peace Conference, 1919

★ Faisal-Weizmann Agreement

★ 1949 Armistice Agreements

★ Camp David Accords (1978)

★ Madrid Conference of 1991

★ Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace (1994)

★ Oslo Accords (1993)

★ Camp David 2000 Summit

★ Peace Process in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

★ Projects working for peace among Israelis and Arabs

★ List of Middle East peace proposals

★ International law and the Arab-Israeli conflict

References

★ A Peace to End All Peace, , David, Fromkin, Henry Holt, 1989,

★ The Balfour Declaration, , Leonard, Stein, Valentine Mitchell, 1961,

Footnotes

1. The official spelling of the city is Sanremo, a phonetic contraction for the name San Romolo (Saint Romolo), official saint and protector of the city, which in the local Ligurian sounds like ''San Rœmu''. The spelling ''San Remo'' was introduced (for unknown reasons) in 1924 by the City Mayor and used in official documents during Fascism. This form of the name is still used on some road signs and tourist information. It has been the most widely used form of the name in English at least since the 19th century.
2. Under the Balfour Declaration the British government had undertaken to favour the reconstitution of a Jewish national home in Palestine without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
3. See: San Remo Resolution

External links

★ Text of April 1920 San Remo Resolution

★ August 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, articles 94 and 95 recapitulating the San Remo Resolution

★ July 1922 text of the Palestine Mandate

★ Palestine under the British Mandate, 1923-1948 (map)