Claim: Though the Armenian reform package was introduced due to the desire of France, Spain, and Britain to limit the influence of Germany though Germany still had a huge say in the final policy.
Evidence: The French, British and Italians were anxious to limit German influence in the Ottoman Empire, while the Russian government encouraged the Catholicos of Armenia to appeal through the viceroy of the Caucasus to the Ottoman government for intervention in favor of reforms in Armenian-inhabited vilayets. It was introduced and discussed in Constantinople at a meeting of the ambassadors of France, Britain and Italy.