In May, Clayton Balfour stated that in response to the indication that the agreement had been shaken, „It allowed for a significant revision to be necessary in light of the changes that have taken place in the situation since the development of the agreement,“ but that he nevertheless felt that „the agreement applies anyway.“ In his introduction to a symposium on Sykes-Picot in 2016, law professor Anghie notes that much of the agreement is entrusted to „trade and trade agreements, access to ports and railway construction.“ [50] The Sykes-Picot Agreement (officially the 1916 Asia Minor Agreement) was a secret agreement between the British government and the French government during World War I on the division of the Ottoman Empire between the Allies. Russia also participated in the talks. Hussein`s letter of February 18, 1916, McMahon appealed for 50,000 pounds of gold, more weapons, ammunition and food, saying Feisal was waiting for „no less than 100,000 people“ to arrive for the planned revolt and McMahon`s response of 10 March 1916 confirming British approval of the applications and concluding the ten letters from correspondents. In April and May, Sykes discussed the benefits of a meeting in which Picot and the Arabs participated to network each other`s wishes. At the same time, logistics have been dealt with in the context of the promised revolt, and there has been growing impatience with what Hussein should do. Finally, at the end of April, McMahon was informed of the terms of Sykes-Picot and Grey and agreed that they would not be disclosed to the Arabs. [54] [55]:57-60 After comparing the wishes of all parties concerned, namely the British, the French and the Arabs, the two statesmen devised a compromise solution. The terms of the division agreement were set out in a letter of 9 May 1916 addressed by Paul Cambon, French Ambassador to London, to Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Minister. These conditions were ratified on 16 May in a letter of Grey`s return to Cambon, and the agreement was formalized on 26 April and 23 May 1916 in an exchange of notes between the three Allied powers.

In the chain of agreements between France, Russia and Great Britain, the Russian demands were first confirmed: France confirmed their agreement on 26 April and Britain on 23 May, with formal sanctions on 23 October. The Anglo-French agreement was confirmed in an exchange of letters on 9 May and 16 May. [37] The minutes, which were adopted at a meeting of the „Big Four“ on 20 March 1919 in Paris and attended by Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, Lloyd George and Arthur Balfour, set out the British and French positions on the agreement. This was the first topic discussed in the discussion on Syria and Turkey and was then at the centre of all the discussions. The territory of Arab independence was defined to be limited north of Mersina and Adana up to 37 degrees latitude, to what degree fall Birijik, Urfa, Tuesday, Midiat, Jerizat (Ibn Uma), Amadia, up to the border of Persia; to the east, on the borders of Persia to the Gulf of Basra; to the south by the Indian Ocean, with the exception of Aden`s position, to remain as it is; west of the Red Sea, the Mediterranean to Nachmersina, with the exception of „parts of Syria“ located west of the „Damascus, Homs, Hama and Aleppo districts“. The „Memorandum on the Claims of the Kurdish People,“ known as Sharif Pasha, presented a „Memorandum on the Claims of the Kurdish People“ at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, and the oppressed report of the People`s Crown Commission also recommended a form of autonomy in „the natural geographical area between Proposed Armenia to the north and Mesopotamia to the south. , with the gap between the Euphrates and tigris as the western border. and the Persian border as an eastern border.“