The agreement was first used directly as a basis for the Anglo-French Modus Vivendi of 1918, which provided a framework for the administration of enemy occupied territories in the Levant. In a broader sense, this should indirectly lead to the subsequent division of the Ottoman Empire after the Ottoman defeat in 1918. Shortly after the war, the French ceded Palestine and Mosul to the British. Mandates in the Levant and Mesopotamia were assigned to the San Remo Conference in April 1920 according to the Sykes-Picot framework; the British Mandate for Palestine lasted until 1948, the British Mandate for Mesopotamia was to be replaced by a similar treaty with theIrak Mandate, and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon lasted until 1946. The Anatolian parts of the agreement were assigned by the Treaty of Sèvres in August 1920; However, these ambitions were thwarted by the Turkish War of Independence in 1919/23 and the treaty of Lausanne that followed. According to the agreement, France would have to exercise direct control over Cilicia, syria`s coastal strip, Lebanon and most of the Galilee to the line that extends north of Acre to the northwest corner of the Sea of Galilee (“Blue Zone”). To the east, in the Syrian hinterland, an Arab state was to emerge under French protection (“Zone A”). Britain should exercise control over southern Mesopotamia (“red zone”) as well as the area around Acre-Haifa Bay in the Mediterranean and have the right to build a railway to Baghdad from there. The area east of the Jordan River and the Negev Desert, south of the line from Gaza to the Dead Sea, has been assigned to an Arab state under British protection (“Area B”). The “blue zone” of southern France in the area that covers the Sandjak of Jerusalem and extends southward to the line that roughly runs from Gaza to the Dead Sea should be under international administration (“Brown Zone”). In May, Clayton told Balfour that in response to a proposal that the deal was contentious, Picot had “allowed a significant revision to be necessary given the changes that had taken place in the situation since the agreement was drafted,” but still believed that “the agreement definitely applies a principle.” (8) For a period of twenty years, the existing Turkish Customs Tariff will remain in force in all blue and red zones and in zones A and B, and an increase in customs duties or the conversion of ad valorem duties into specific rates will be carried out only by mutual agreement between the two Powers.

There are no internal customs barriers between the above-mentioned territories. Customs duties levied on goods intended for the internal market shall be collected at the point of entry and handed over to the administration of the territory of destination. Many sources claim that Sykes-Picot disagreed with the Hussein-McMahon correspondence of 1915-1916 and that the publication of the agreement in November 1917 caused the resignation of Sir Henry McMahon. [107] There were several points of divergence, the most obvious being Iraq in the British red zone and less obviously the idea that British and French advisers would have control of the territory, which is intended for an Arab state. Finally, while the correspondence did not mention Palestine, Haifa and Acre were to be British and the brown zone (a reduced Palestine) was to be internationalized. [108] On April 21, Faisal left for the East. Before leaving, Clemenceau sent the 17th. In April, the French government said it recognized “Syria`s right to independence in the form of a federation of autonomous governments in accordance with the traditions and desires of the people,” and claimed that Faisal had recognized “that France is the power qualified to provide Syria with the assistance of various advisers necessary to create order and make the progress demanded by the population.” the Syrian people” and on April 20, Faisal Clemenceau assured that he was “deeply impressed by the altruistic kindness of your remarks towards me while I was in Paris, and must thank you for having been the first to propose the deployment of the Interallied Commission, which will soon leave for the East to determine the wishes of the local peoples regarding the future organization of their country.