860J.111/4–2147
The Embassy of the Soviet Union to the Department of State
No. 56
The Embassy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics presents its compliments to the Department of State and has the honor to inform it of the following:
The Government of the U.S.S.R., with a view to satisfying numerous requests of Armenians residing abroad, has given permission for the Government of Soviet Armenia to arrange for the return of Armenians who desire to go back to their motherland—Soviet Armenia—from a number of countries, including the United States of America.
In this connection the Embassy requests the Department of State to render assistance to those Armenians who desire to return to their motherland by permitting them to leave, export property which belongs to them, relinquish their foreign citizenship,1 et cetera.
- In an enclosure to despatch 567 from Moscow on November 29, 1946, the Embassy reported that on October 19 the “Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree according to which foreign Armenians returning home in the manner prescribed by the Government are recognized as citizens of the USSR from the moment they arrive in the USSR.” See Foreign Relations, 1946, vol. vi, p. 814.↩
- The initials are those of Vasily Akimovich Tarasenko, Counselor of the Soviet Embassy, at this time Chargé.↩