MONTREUX CONVENTION
REVISION DESIRABLE MATTER FOR ALL NATIONS (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 20. Turkey, replying to the second Russian Note on the Dardanelles, affirmed that she was ready to lay the whole problem before ah international conference, says the Istanbul correspondent of the Associated Press. Turkey considered that all the necessary preliminary discussions as agreed at Potsdam had been completed. Turkey categorically rejected the demands for a share in the defence of the Dardanelles and confinement of control to Black Sea Powers. Joint defence would be incompatible with the unchangeable rights of the sovereignty of Turkey and with its security, whicii could not permit any restriction, the reply stated, but the time had come for revision of the Montreux Convention in, line with Russian proposals regarding the passage of warships and merchantmen. The Note stated: " Turkey does not forget that she is a Mediterranean as well as a Black Sea Power and for that reason cannot consider the question of the Black Sea and control of the Dardanelles as a problem interesting only the Black Sea Powers.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26289, 22 October 1946, Page 5
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