After opposing the dissiderate of all the parties concerned, namely the British, the French and the Arabs, the two statesmen elaborated a compromise solution. The terms of the division agreement were set out in a letter dated 9 May 1916 from Paul Cambon, French Ambassador in London, to Sir Edward Grey, British Foreign Secretary. These conditions were ratified in a letter of return from Grey to Cambon on May 16 and the agreement was formalized during an exchange of notes between the three Allied powers on April 26 and May 23, 1916. The agreement was based on the premise that the Triple Entente would succeed during World War I in defeating the Ottoman Empire, and was part of a series of secret agreements that preferred its division. The main negotiations that led to the agreement took place between November 23, 1915 and November 3, 1915. During which British and French diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot initialled an agreed memorandum. [3] The agreement was ratified by their respective governments on 9 and 16 May 1916. [4] In his introduction to a 2016 symposium on sykes-Picot, law professor Anghie notes that much of the agreement is due to "trade and commercial agreements, access to ports and railway construction." [50] For nearly four centuries, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the First World War, most Arab countries were represented by vilayets (provinces) of the Ottoman Empire, while the western part of the Arab East was already under the domination of the colonial powers of England and France at that time. In 1916, London and Paris secretly agreed on a future division of the Asian part of the Ottoman state, which suffered defeat during the war. Under these agreements, after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the Arab vilayets should be under the mandate of these powers. Their representatives, the British Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot of France, made history as authors of the first version in a hurry to share the Asian part of Ottoman Turkey in a colonial way.

On April 21, Faisal left for the East. Before leaving, Clemenceau sent a draft letter on April 17 in which the French government declared that it recognized "Syria`s right to independence in the form of a federation of autonomous governments, in accordance with the traditions and wishes of the population," stating that Faisal had recognized "that France is the power qualified to give the help of various advisers to Syria, which are necessary to put in order and achieve the progress demanded by the population. on April 1, Fayçal Clemenceau assured that he was "deeply impressed by the disinterested kindness of your statements towards me, while I was in Paris, and that he must thank you for having been the first to propose the sending of the Interallied Commission, which will soon leave for the East to determine the wishes of the local peoples as to the future organization of their country. . . .