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The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Wilson)

813. Following is the text of the provisions concerning the “Black Sea Straits” contained in the Protocol signed at Berlin on August 2, 1945:41

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“The Three Governments recognized that the Convention on the Straits concluded at Montreux should be revised as failing to meet present-day conditions.

It was agreed that as the next step the matter should be the subject of direct conversations between each of the Three Governments and the Turkish Government.”

Byrnes
  1. This was article xvi of the Protocol of the Proceedings of the Berlin Conference: see Conference of Berlin (Potsdam) vol. ii, p. 1490, and footnote 90.