 Unable to negotiate anything more favorable than capitulation with the Ottomans, the Georgian leaders at the Batumi talks arranged a side-deal with Germany to exchange German protection for access to Georgia's economic resources.The result was that the Seym dissolved the federative republic on May 26, 1918, with the Democratic Republic of Georgia declared the same day and the republics of Azerbaijan and Armenia declared on May 28.The Armenian National Council elected Kajaznuni as the first prime minister of the independent Armenian state on June 6, 1918 and his cabinet was formed on June 30.