HC Deb 29 July 1976 vol 916 c373W
Mr. Roper

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which are the nine States party to the Montreaux Convention.

Mr. Hattersley

Australia, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Romania, the Soviet Union, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Yugoslavia. Under Article 8(b) of the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951, Japan, which had been a party, renounced all rights and interests in the Convention.