[Turco-Greek Frontier.]

Cabinet of Athens, communicating Award of Conference* brought under discussion and agreed to.

Berlin, 29th June, 1880.

No. 7. Signature of Final Act.* Ambassadors decide that the Note to be sent to Constantinople and Athens, accompanying the Final Act, should be Collective not Identic, and agree as to its terms. Russian declaration respecting the successful result of the work of the Conference, and to the satisfaction of his Government at the unanimous character of the agreement arrived at. Similar expressions from other Ambassadors. The President (Prince Hohenlohe) requested to convey to the Emperor William expressions of homage from the Ambassadors, and gratitude for the hospitality shown to them. Thanks to President and to Protocolists. President's acknowledgments. Recognition of labours of Technical Commission. Closing of Conference. Berlin, 1st July, 1880.

See also

[For Award of 1st July, 1880, see No. 569. Protocols of Conferences, 10th to 24th May, 1881 (No. 583); Treaty between the Six Powers and Turkey, 24th May, 1881 (No. 584); and Treaty between Turkey and Greece, 2nd July, 1881 (No. 585).]

*See No. 569, page 2966.

[Award. Turco-Greek Boundary.]

No. 569.-AWARD of the Plenipotentiaries of Great Britain, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia, on the New Frontier Line to be drawn between Greece and Turkey.* Berlin, 1st July, 1880.

(Translation.)

THE discussions which have taken place between Turkey and Greece for the rectification of their frontierst having led to no result, the Undersigned Plenipotentiaries of the Powers called upon by the provisions of the Treaty of 13th July, 1878 (No. 530) to exercise their Mediation between the two States, met in Conference at Berlin, conformably to the instructions of their Governments, and after mature deliberation, acting in the spirit and in accordance with the terms of Protocol No. 13 of the Berlin Congress (No. 526), have unanimously adopted the following line:

"The frontier will follow the thalweg of the Kalamas from the mouth of that river in the Ionian Sea, as far as its source in the neighbourhood of Han Kalibaki, and then the crests which form the line of separation between the basins:

"To the north, of the Voioussa, of the Haliacmon, of the Mavroneria, and their tributaries.

"To the south, of the Kalamas, of the Arta, of the Aspropotamos, and of the Salamyrias (formerly the Peneus) and their tributaries, to join the Olympus, the crest of which it will follow to its eastern extremity on the Egean Sea. This line leaves to the south the Lake of Janina and all its affluents, as well as Metzovo, which will remain to Greece."

The Undersigned have the honour to submit to the Powers of which they are their representatives and mandataries, the present Decision, in order that they may have the goodness to approve it, and to notify it to the parties interested.

Berlin, 1st July, 1880.

HOHENLOHE.
SZÉCHÉNYI.

ST. VALLIER.
ODO RUSSELL.
LAUNAY.
SABOUROFF.

This line is not that which was eventually adopted. See Convention

of 24th May, 1881 (No. 584).

+ See Protocols of Conferences, 22nd August to 17th November, 1879 (No. 559), page 2941

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TURCO-GREEK BOUNDARY

Shewing Award of Berlin Conference of 1 July 1880.

[Turco-Greek Boundary. Mediation.]

No. 570.-COLLECTIVE NOTE addressed by the Representatives of the Treaty Powers to the Porte and to the Greek Government,* announcing the Decision of the Conference at Berlin (No. 526) as to the New Turco-Greek Boundary. Constantinople, 15th July, 1880.

(Translation.)

Constantinople, 15th July, 1880.

THE Undersigned, Ambassadors or Ministers, &c., near His Majesty the Emperor of the Ottomans, have the honour to forward to His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Sublime Porte, the following note, by order of their Governments:

The Congress of Berlin (No. 528) having indicated in its 13th Protocol (No. 526) the principal points of the frontier line which it considers necessary to be fixed between Turkey and Greece, the Powers have had recourse in the first instance to direct negotiations upon this basis between the two States. At two consultations ("reprises "), in the Conferences of Prevesa (No. 543) and of Constantinople (No. 559), the Turkish and Greek Commissioners, after long discussions, could only record the fact that their differences were irreconcilable. In view of these fruitless attempts, the Powers appointed by the Treaty of Berlin (No. 530) have judged it necessary to interpose their mediation.

This mediation, to be effective, should be carried out in all its completeness, and the Cabinets, in presence of the reciprocal dispositions of the two interested Powers, have prescr bed to their Representatives assembled in Conference at Berlin to fix, in conformity with the general indications of the Protocol No. 13 (No. 526), a line which shall constitute between Greece and Turkey a good and lasting defensive frontier.

The Plenipotentiaries, after a most attentive discussion, elucidated, moreover, by the assistance of Technical Commissioners delegated by their Governments (No. 567), have unanimously voted, following the terms of their mandate, the line contained in the following Act which recapitulates and closes their deliberations.

*The Collective Note was presented to the Greek Prime Minister by the Representatives of the Treaty Powers at Athens on the same day.