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Griechisch-Türkische Beziehungen.

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Nr. 7082.

Gesandter in Athen (Mr. Corbett) an den Einladung an Griechenland zu erneuten Verhandlungen über die Grenzfrage.

Athens, June 10, 1879.

Gross

My Lord, With reference to my telegram of yesterday, I have the Nr. 7082. honour to inform your Lordship that a conference of the Representatives of britannien. the Great Powers now in Athens was held yesterday in my house, and it 10. Juni 1879. was agreed that each of us should address to the Greek Government a note inviting them to send to Constantinople Plenipotentiaries to renew negotiations with those to be named by the Porte for the rectification of the Turco-Greek frontier, the Ambassadors of the Great Powers at Constantinople being instructed to exercise their mediation, if necessary, in order to bring the two parties to an understanding. || My French, Italian and Austrian colleagues and myself accordingly drew up notes couched in the terms of the identical instructions we had received, with the exception that the two former stated that the presentation of their notes was in answer to the demand of the Greek Government for the mediation of the Powers-a statement which neither my Austrian colleague nor myself thought ourselves authorized to make, inasmuch as, the Greek Circular of the 9th/21st March *) having been addressed to our respective Governments, it would be answered by them, or, if they had wished us to do so, we should have received definite instructions in that sense. In the afternoon we waited in a body on M. Delyanni and presented to his Excellency our respective notes. The German Chargé d'Affaires (as I

informed your Lordship in my telegram of yesterday), who was present, told M. Delyanni, that his Government fully concurred in the step his colleagues had taken, but that he was not authorized to make the statement in writing,

*) S. Staatsarchiv Bd. XXXVI Nr. 7050. Staatsarchiv XXXVII,

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Nr. 7082. but he had 'telegraphed to Berlin for permission to do so. The Secretary of Gross- the Russian Legation delivered at the same time a note addressed to the

britannien.

10. Juni 1879. Greek Government in the sense of our communications. || I have the honour to inclose copy of the note which I addressed to M. Delyanni, couched in the same terms as the note of the Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, according to the instructions conveyed to me in your Lordship's telegram of the 5th instant. M. Delyanni said, that he would submit to the Council of Ministers and the King the proposal for the renewal of negotiations which we had made in the name of our respective Governments, and would inform us of the result. || I have, &c.

Edwin Corbett.

Beilage.

Mr. Corbett to M. Delyanni.

Athens, June 9, 1879.

M. le Ministre, The Government of His Hellenic Majesty having, by their Circular of the 9th/21st March last, requested the mediation of the Great Powers, according to the terms of Article XXIV of the Treaty of Berlin, Her Britannic Majesty's Government, desirous to give a proof of their friendship for Greece, after having been in communication with the Powers who signed the above-mentioned Treaty, have accepted the proposal of the French Government to ask the Greek Government and the Sublime Porte to name Plenipotentiaries, who should renew at Constantinople the negotiations for the rectification of the frontier between the two countries, and that the Representatives of the Great Powers accredited to the Sublime Porte should be instructed to exercise their mediation, if necessary, in order to ensure a successful issue, and I have, consequently, been instructed by the Marquis of Salisbury to announce to your Excellency that Her Majesty's Government. have adopted the view above mentioned, and, in conjunction with my colleagues, Representatives of the Great Powers in Greece, to request the Hellenic Government to name, with as little delay as possible, Plenipotentiaries to go to Constantinople to renew, with the Plenipotentiaries to be named by the Porte, the negotiations in question. || I avail, &c.

E. Corbett.