The twelfth of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points, who by the way for all his efforts received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, goes as follows:

XII. The Turkish portion of the present Ottoman Empire should be assured a secure sovereignty, but the other nationalities which are now under Turkish rule should be assured an undoubted security of life and an absolutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the Dardanelles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guarantees.

The second part refers to the Montreux Convention, which was implemented in 1936 with an effect up until 1956, due to Article 28. The first part constitutes a very clear reference to the Armenian problem and indirectly to
the Pontian one as well. Following the discussions in Paris in regards to the Armenian-Pontian formation, which Greece, through Eleftherios Venizelos, considered that it would not be a durable situation, the Armenian efforts continued, even to the extent that a map was proposed, which in actual fact determined the region of Western Armenia, which enlarged Armenia, as it
simultaneously was incorporating a part of Pontus, especially regarding the region of Trebizond, a factor which nevertheless caused no reaction from the Greek side. This means that, at that stage Greece already saw this approach in a practical, rather than a theoretical manner. The phase change occurred afterwards, with the war between Armenia and Turkey, which firstly resulted with the Treaty of Kars in 1921, and of course with the Lausanne Treaty in
1923. But this mental scheme in regards to Pontus and Armenia remains a dynamic one, as the claims of Western Armenia are becoming more and more effective in the overall context of the restructuring of the situation.