List of participants in the Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

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Map of the World with the Participants in World War I. The Allies are depicted in green, the Central Powers in orange, and neutral countries in grey.

The Paris Peace Conference gathered over 30 nations at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris, France, to shape the future after World War I. The Russian SFSR was not invited to attend, having already concluded a peace treaty with the Central Powers in the spring of 1918. The Central Powers - Austria-Hungary, Germany, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire - were not allowed to attend the conference until after the details of all the peace treaties had been elaborated and agreed upon. The main result of the conference was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany.

Signing delegations

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The main delegations, with their secretaries and interpreters, in a painting by Herbert Arnould Olivier.

This list shows all nations and delegations who signed the Treaty of Versailles. All plenipotentiaries signed the treaty, except where indicated otherwise.[1]

State Plenipotentiaries Notes
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Billy Hughes
Joseph Cook
File:Flag of Bolivia.svg Bolivia Ismael Montes
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg Belgium Paul Hymans
Jules Van den Heuvel
Emile Vandervelde
Template:Flagcountry Template:Ill
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File:Canadian Red Ensign (1868–1921).svg Canada Robert BordenTemplate:Efn
Charles Doherty
Arthur Sifton
Signed under 'British Empire'. Prime Minister Borden fought successfully for Canada to have its own seat at the Conference, which the British and Americans eventually relented too, opening the doors to allowing Australia, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and South Africa to send representatives as well. Borden also insisted that he be included among those leaders to sign the Treaty of Versailles; however, it was agreed that Canada would sign under the British Empire.
Template:Flagcountry Lu ZhengxiangTemplate:Efn
Wellington KooTemplate:Efn
Cao RulinTemplate:Efn
Many in China felt betrayed as the German territory in China was handed to Japan. Wellington Koo refused to sign the treaty and the Chinese delegation was the only nation that did not sign the Treaty of Versailles at the signing ceremony. At the time of the Paris Peace Conference there were two governments claiming to be the legitimate government of China: the Beiyang Government in Beijing, and Dr Sun Yat-sen's Guangzhou based Kuomintang (KMT) movement. However, they worked together to create the united diplomatic team that would plead China's case in Paris.
Template:Flagcountry Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven
Template:Flagdeco Czechoslovakia Karel Kramář
Edvard Beneš
File:Flag of Ecuador (1900–2009).svg Ecuador Enrique Darn y de Alsua
Template:Flagdeco France Georges Clemenceau
Stephen Pichon
Louis-Lucien Klotz
André Tardieu
Jules Cambon
File:Flag of Germany (3-2 aspect ratio).svg Germany Hermann Müller
Johannes Bell
Germany were excluded from the negotiations, but Hermann Müller and Johannes Bell, as government ministers in the new Weimar Republic, signed the treaty as representatives of Germany on 29 June 1919.
Template:Country data Kingdom of Greece Eleftherios Venizelos
Nicolas Politis
File:Flag of Guatemala.svg Guatemala Joaquín Méndez
Template:Flagicon Haiti Tertullien Guilbaud
Template:Flagcountry Rustam Haidar
Abdul Hadi Aouni
Later absorbed into Saudi Arabia.
File:Flag of Honduras (1866-1898).svg Honduras Policarpo Bonilla
Template:Flagdeco India Edwin Samuel Montagu
Ganga Singh
Template:Flagcountry Vittorio Emanuele OrlandoTemplate:Efn
Sidney Sonnino
Guglielmo Imperiali
Silvio Crespi
Template:Flagcountry Saionji Kinmochi
Makino Nobuaki
Chinda Sutemi
Matsui Keishirō
File:Flag of Liberia.svg Liberia Charles D. B. King
File:Flag of New Zealand.svg New Zealand William Ferguson Massey
File:Flag of Nicaragua (1908–1971).svg Nicaragua Salvador Chamorro
File:Flag of Panama.svg Panama Antonio Burgos
File:Flag of Peru.svg Peru Carlos de Candamo
Template:Flagicon Poland Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Roman Dmowski
Template:Country data First Portuguese Republic Afonso Costa
Augusto Soares
Template:Flagcountry Ion I. C. Brătianu
Constantin Coandă
File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1943).svg Serbs, Croats and Slovenes Nikola Pašić
Ante Trumbić
Milenko Radomar Vesnić
Slobodan JovanovićTemplate:Efn
Miodrag IbrovacTemplate:Efn
Later Kingdom of Yugoslavia
Template:Flags Siam Charoonsakdi Kritakara
Traidos Prabandhu
Template:Flagcountry Jan Smuts
Louis Botha
Template:Flagcountry David Lloyd George
Bonar Law
Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner
Arthur Balfour
George Barnes
File:Flag of the United States (1912-1959).svg United States Woodrow Wilson
Robert Lansing
Henry White
Edward M. House
Tasker H. Bliss[2]
See also American Commission to Negotiate Peace.
File:Flag of Uruguay.svg Uruguay Juan Antonio Buero

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Other national representatives

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Delegation from the First Republic of Armenia during the Paris Peace Conference.
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Delegation from the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan in Template:Ill during the Paris Peace Conference.

Despite not signing the treaties, other delegations were sent to the Paris Peace Conferences, some uninvited, in order to represent their national interests.

Nation Representatives Notes
Template:Flagdeco Arab delegation Faisal
Lawrence of Arabia
Faisal, later King of Iraq, advocated for an independent Arab state. T. E. Lawrence acted as the delegation's translator.[3][4]
Template:Flagdeco First Republic of Armenia Avetis Aharonian
Hamo Ohanjanyan
Armen Garo
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File:Flag of Aromanians in Paris Peace Conference.svg Aromanian delegation National Committee of the Pindus Attempted to establish an autonomous Aromanian entity.[5]
File:Old Assyrian Flag.svg Assyrian delegation Bishop Aphrem Baroum Attempted to establish an autonomous Assyrian entity in the Assyrian homeland.[6]
Template:Flagdeco Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan Alimardan bey Topchubashov Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Template:Flagdeco Belarusian Democratic Republic Anton Luckievich Attempted to gain international recognition of the independence of Belarus.[7]
File:Flag of Estonia.svg Estonia Jaan Poska
Nikolai Köstner
Jaan Tõnisson
Ants Piip
Karl Robert Pusta
Mihkel Martna
Eduard Laaman
Joakim Puhk
Attempted to gain recognition of the independence of Estonia.[8][9]
Template:Flagdeco Ethiopian Empire Dejazmach Tafari

Dejazmatch Nadew

Sought international recognition of its territorial integrity and independence from Italian Eritrea, British Somaliland and French Somaliland. Also wanted to be considered not a "barbarous state" but rather a "civilised [African] country" with unique interests, so that it might strengthen its position on the world stage as a subject of international law, being capable of participating in the international arena instead of remaining isolated.[10][11]
Template:Flagdeco Democratic Republic of Georgia Nikolay Chkheidze
Irakli Tsereteli
Zurab Avalishvili
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Template:Flagdeco Irish Republic Seán T. O'Kelly The unrecognized Irish Republic sent representatives in hope the republic declared at the Easter Rising in 1916 would be recognised, but they were ignored.[12][13]
File:Flag of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.svg Korean Provisional Government Kim Kyu-sik Representing the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, in-exile in China.[14]
Template:Flagicon Kurdish delegation Şerif Pasha Representing Society for the Rise of Kurdistan and its goal to establish an independent country, or an autonomous entity, in Kurdistan.[15]
File:Flag of Latvia.svg Latvia Jānis Čakste Attempted to gain recognition of the independence of Latvia.[8][16]
File:Flag of Lebanon (1918-1920).svg Lebanon Daoud Amoun (first delegation)
Elias Peter Hoayek (second delegation)
Abdullah El-Khoury (third delegation)
Three separate delegations were sent to attempt to: expand the borders of Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate and to gain recognition of the independence of Lebanon.[17][18][19]
File:Flag of Lithuania.svg Lithuania Augustinas Voldemaras
Antanas Smetona
Attempted to gain recognition of the independence of Lithuania.[8][20]
Template:Flagcountry Nicholas I of Montenegro The unification of Serbia and Montenegro on 18 November 1918 was contested by the exiled king of Montenegro. Despite Italian support, Montenegro was denied an official seat at the Peace Conferences, and the unification of Serbia and Montenegro was recognised.[21]
File:Flag of the Dominion of Newfoundland.svg Newfoundland William F. Lloyd [22]
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Template:Flagicon Persia Mostowfi ol-Mamalek

Vosugh od-Dowleh Mohammad Ali Foroughi

Iranians, as a neutral power, negotiated war reparations to both, Allies and Central Powers (suggesting Ottoman and Russian territory) due to Persian campaign.[23] Also solicited French or American help to seizure independence from Anglo-Russian spheres of influence in Persia.[24]
Template:Flagicon Russia Sergey Sazonov The Allied Powers refused to recognise the Bolshevik government of Russia, and instead invited representatives of the Russian Provisional Government (chaired by Prince Lvov), the successor to the Russian Constituent Assembly and the political arm of the Russian White movement.[25][26]
File:Flag of San Marino (1862–2011).svg San Marino M. Bucquet [27]
File:Flag of Syria (1932-1958; 1961-1963).svg Syria Chekri Ganem
Jamil Mardam Bey
See Central Syrian Committee.
Template:Flagdeco Tripolitanian Republic Lobbied for the independence of Tripolitania from Italian Libya.[28]
Template:Flagdeco Ukrainian People's Republic Hryhorii Sydorenko
Mykhailo Tyshkevych
Lobbied for the independence of Ukraine and for support in its war against Russia.[29]
File:Standard of the Nguyen Dynasty (1890 - 1920).svg Vietnam Nguyen Ai Quoc Nguyen Ai Quoc (later known as Ho Chi Minh) petitioned the conference, seeking self determination and independence for the Vietnamese people.[30][31]
Template:Country data West Ukrainian People's Republic Vasyl Paneiko Lobbied for the independence of West Ukraine.[29]

Non-national representatives

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Inter-Allied Women's Conference.

Other non-national or pan-national delegations were in Paris, hoping to petition the allies on issues relating to their causes.

Group Major People Notes
1st Pan-African Congress W. E. B. Du Bois
Ida Gibbs
Held in February 1919 in order to petition the allies on African issues.
Inter-Allied Women's Conference Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger Convened and met from 10 February to 10 April 1919.
File:World Zionist Organization.png Zionist Organization Dr. Chaim Weizmann Lobbied for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.[32]

Oversights

An oft-stated myth is that the Principality of Andorra was not invited to attend, due to an 'oversight' and that the issue of Andorra being at war was eventually resolved on September 24, 1958, when a peace treaty was signed. This claim first appeared in North American newspapers in 1958[33][34] and has been repeated since.[35][36] In reality, Andorra did not officially participate in World War I.[37] In 2014, the news outlet Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra investigated the 1958 claim and could find no documentation of any original declaration of war. Historian Pere Cavero could only find an exchange of letters between the German consul in Marseille and the Catalan Ombudsman, where the former asks if there is a state of war with Andorra and the latter responds they could find nothing in their archive to indicate this.[38]

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