Negotiated over six months in New York City following the Armistice. The New York Peace Accords did not include the Russian Empire, Russia having made a separate peace, earlier in 1918. The Status Quo Ante Bellum in Turkey, North Africa and the Arabian peninsula was negotiated as part of the Damascus Armistice. However, the ceasefire was to be observed by all parties to the conflict and the implementation of the terms including ceasefire among unrecognized states as an interim compromise was affirmed at the beginning of the conference. Both the Entente and the Quadruple Alliance Powers had competing interests in N. Africa and the Arabian peninsula. The instability of the Ottoman Empire and Austria-Hungary left many issues unresolved, future Arab and potentially Jewish states, British i