Διακοίνωση του Δημήτρη Καθενιώτη σχετικά με το Ποντιακό ζήτημα και τη στρατιωτική κατάσταση στον Καύκασο, τον πληθυσμό των ελληνικών κοινοτήτων και τη σύνθεσή του, καθώς και τη συγκρότηση ενός ανεξάρτητου ελληνο-μουσουλμανικού κράτους.

Verbal Note No. 3. 1. Early last December, on the introduction of the Greek Minister for Foreign Affairs, Colonel Cathenioetes presented himself at the British Legation in Athens and submitted an expose of the Pontus question summarized in Verbal Note No. 1, annexed hereto. Towards the end of January last, the same officer, on the introduction of the Greek Commissioner in Constantinople, was received by General Milne, and submitted Verbal Note No. 2. also annexed hereto, dealing with the military situation in the Caucasus. The contents of this latter Note have to-day, however, no practical significance, as the contemplated Federation of Pontus and Armenia is no longer practicable, in view of the frontiers traced for Armenia by the Peace Conference. The present Verbal Note will examine the same question from a different angle, quite independently of the claims formulated by the Pontus Greeks which are political, not military, in character. The Greek communities scattered over the North-eastern shores of the Black Sea total in all some 400,000 (Kodan 200,000, Sochous 70,000, Poti 30,000 &c.). The are composed of natives of the Pontus regions of Trezibond and Kerassund who have migrated during the last 50 years in order to escape the vexations of the Turkish regime. These populations would witness with joy the liberation of part of their native territory and its constitution into an independent Greco-Moslem State analogous in regime to Cilicia. -1-