Stands By UNO, Rebuffs Soviet

Northern Advocate, 26 August 1946, Page 5

Stands By UNO, Rebuffs Soviet

(Rec. 11.0 a.m.) LONDON. Aug. 25. Turkey's reply to the Russian Note on the Montreux Convention emphasised that tiie maintenance of security was the United Nations' responsibility, says Reuter's Ankara correspondent. The Turkish Note said the best guarantee for the security of Russia lay not in seeking a privileged position in the Straits, but in the restoration of strong relations with a strong Turkey. Turkey believed that the security ot each nation was better guaranteed by international forces placed at the disposal of the United Nations. Even in the unlikely case of Russia fearing an attack in the Black Sea from the Mediterranean, through the Straits, Turkey considered this would be a case for the United Nations. L' which Turkey remained firmly attached.

The Russian reproach that the Montreux Convention did not correspond to present conditions could not be accepted by Turkey, which asserted before the world, and which would assert when the time came before competent authorities, its good faith and the high consciousness of its international responsibilities under the Montreux Convention. The reply commented that part of the Russian Note seemed to ignore the interests of the other signatory Powers, iThe Russian Note said that responsibility for establishing a regime for the Straits must lie with Turkey and the other Black Sea Powers and that defence of the Straits must jointly be organised by Turkey and Russia.)