Russo-Rumanian Agreement of 1914

an agreement concerning Rumania’s friendly neutrality toward Russia in World War I and the enlargement of Rumania’s territory. The treaty was formally concluded by an exchange of notes on September 18 (October 1) between S. D. Sazonov, the Russian minister of foreign affairs, and C. Diamandy, the Rumanian envoy to Petrograd. Russia pledged to oppose attempts to violate the territorial integrity of Rumania and to recognize Rumania’s “right to annex areas of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy inhabited by Rumanians.” The “principle of population majority” was to “serve as the basis for delineating territories to be annexed either by Russia or by Rumania” in Bucovina. Rumania in turn pledged to observe a favorable neutrality toward Russia.