-29-
NHEX B
AGREM ̃NT CONCERNING THE ENTRY OF THE SOVIET UNION INTO THE "AR AGAINST JAPAN
Livadia, 11th February, 1945
The leaders of the three Great Powers
-
the Soviet Union,
have agreed
the United "tates of America and Great Britain that in two or three months after Germany has surrendered and the war in Europe has terminsted the Soviet Union shall enter into the war against Japan on the side of the Allies.on condition that:
•
The status quo in Outer-Mongolia (The Mongolian People's Republic shall be preserved;
2. The former rights of Pussia violated by the treacherous attack of Japan in 1904 shall be restored, viz.:-
Union.
(a) the southern part of Sakhalin as well as all the
islands adjacent to it shall be returned to the Soviet Union.
(b) the commercial port of Dairen shall be internationalised, the re-eminent interests of the Soviet Union in this port being safeguarded and the lease of Port Arthur as a naval base of the U...R. restored,
(c) the Chinese-"astern Railroad and the South-Manchurian
Railroad which provides an outlet to Dairen shall be jointly operated by the establishment of a joint Soviet- Chinese Company it being understood that the pre-cminent interests of the Soviet Union shall be safeguarded and that China shell retain full sovereignty in Manchuria;
3.
The Kuril islands shall be handed over to the Soviet
It is understood, that the agreement concerning Outer- Mongolia and the ports and railroads referred to above will require concurrence of Generelicsimo Chiang Kai-shek. President will take measures in order to obtain this concurrence on advice from Marshal talin.
The
The Hords of the three Great Powers have agreed that these claims of the Soviet Union shall be unquestionably fulfilled after Tapen has been deferted.
For its ort the Soviet Union expresses its readiness to conclude with the National Government of Ching a pact of friendship and allience between the .^.5.2. and China in order to render assistance to Chine with its crmed forces for the purosc of liberating Ching from the Japanese yoke.
J.V. STALIN.
FRANTY IN D. BOOSTV VI, WINSTON S. CHURCHILL,
11th February, 1945.
102