It is agreed that the French Government shall not at any time enter into negotiations on the transfer of its rights and that it shall not assign such rights in the Blue Domain to third States, with the exception of the Arab State or the Confederation of Arab States, without the prior consent of His Majesty`s Government, which, in turn, will give the French government a similar commitment with regard to red. The French elected Picot French High Commissioner for the soon-to-be-occupied territory of Syria and Palestine. The British appointed Sykes as political director of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force. On April 3, 1917, Sykes met with Lloyd George, Curzon, and Hankey to receive his instructions on the matter, namely to keep the French next door while pushing for British Palestine. First Sykes in early May, then Picot and Sykes traveled together to the Hejas in May to discuss the deal with Faisal and Hussein. [55]:166 Hussein was persuaded to accept a formula that preferred that the French in Syria should have the same policy as the British in Baghdad; As Hussein believed that Baghdad would be part of the Arab state, this had finally satisfied him. Subsequent reports from participants expressed doubts about the exact nature of the discussions and the extent to which Hussein had actually been informed of Sykes-Picot`s conditions. [61] As a result of the Sazonov Palaiologos Agreement it contains, Russia should also receive the Western Army, in addition to Constantinople and the Turkish Strait, already promised in the Constantinople Agreement of 1915. [8] In 1917, Italy grew in the Convention of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and obtained southern Anatolia.

[8] The area of Palestine smaller than Palestine should be covered by an „international administration.“ In May, Clayton Balfour said that in response to a proposal that the agreement was contentious, Picot had „admitted that a significant revision was needed given the changes in the situation since the agreement was drafted,“ but nonetheless considered that „the agreement was in any case valid in principle.“ One of ISIS`s stated goals is to denounce the dismantling agreement. The group`s leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, called for replacing the region`s failing nations into a transnational regional power called the „caliphate.“ It will be necessary to prevent regional actors from trying to cast the contours of a proposal in order to position external powers against each other and leave the region in chaos. . . .