Treaty of Paris (1920)

The 1920 Treaty of Paris was an act signed by Romania and the principal Allied Powers of the time (France, United Kingdom, Italy and Japan) whose purpose was the recognition of Romanian sovereignty over Bessarabia.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The treaty, however, never came into force because Japan failed to ratify it.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Foreign Affairs Association of Japan, 1940, Contemporary Japan: A Review of Japanese Affairs, Volume 9, p. 439</ref>

On 9 April 1918 (old style 27 March 1918), during the chaos of the Russian Civil War and following Romanian military intervention, the Bessarabian legislature (Sfatul Țării) voted in favor of the union of Bessarabia with Romania with 86 votes in favor, three against, and 36 abstentions, an act regarded by the Russians as a Romanian invasion.<ref>Edward Ozhiganov, "The Republic of Moldova: Transdniester and the 14th Army", in: Alexei Arbatov et al., (eds.) Managing Conflict in the Former Soviet Union: Russian and American Perspectives (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1997) pp. 145–209.</ref>

As with the Treaty of Versailles, the 1920 treaty contained the Covenant of the League of Nations, and, as a result, it was not ratified by the United States. The United States refused initially to sign the Treaty on the grounds that Russia was not represented at the treaty conference.<ref>Wayne S Vucinich, Bessarabia In: Collier's Encyclopedia (Crowell Collier and MacMillan Inc., 1967) vol. 4, p. 103</ref>

The Paris Peace Treaty of 28 October 1920, formally recognized the union of Bessarabia with Romania. The union was recognized by the United Kingdom, France and Italy, but Japan did not ratify it, and the Soviet Union never recognized this Union.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• Text of the treaty at Australian Treaty Series.