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— I02 ARMENIA AND ITS SORROWS such a contingency they reserve to themselves the joint consideration of the means they consider the best adapted to assure the welfare of the Christian populations and the interests of general peace." At the close of the Russo-Turkish War in 1878, came the Treaty of San Stefano, the 16th Article of which runs as follows " : As the evacuation by the Russian troops of the territory which they occupy in Armenia, and which is to be restored to Turkey, might give rise to conflicts and complications detrimental to the maintenance of good relations between the two countries, the Sublime Porte engages to carry into effect, ivithoiit fiirther delay, the improvements and reforms demanded by local requirements in the provinces inhabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security from Kurds and Circassians." On 30th May 1878 a memorandum was signed in London by Lord Salisbury and Count Schouvaloff, which stated, inter alia " : The promises respecting Armenia stipulated in the preliminary Treaty of San Stefano, must not be made exclusively to Russia, but to England also." Next came the Cyprus Treaty, of 4th June 1878, in which Turkey promised " to introduce necessary reforms, to be agreed upon later between the two Powers, into the government and for the protection of the Christian and other subjects of the Porte, in these territories," and handed over Cyprus as a pledge of good faith. In the same year the Treaty of Berlin was signed, the 61st Article of which is as follows: " The Sublime Porte engages to realise, without delay, those ameliorations and reforms wliich local needs require in the provinces inliabited by the Armenians, and to guarantee their security against the Circassians and the Kurds. It undertakes to make known from time to time the measures taken
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