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Show MOSCOW SE1S PROTEST NOTE Soviet Participation in Near Eastern Treaty Sessions Demanded MOSCOW. Oct. 20. (By the Associated Asso-ciated Press.) The repeated refusal ' of the powers to take Into consideration considera-tion Russia's most elementary and Just demands, far from contributing to the consolidation of a general peace, creates conditions which are likely to bring .serious International complications, complica-tions, says the note addressed to Qreat Britain and Italy by tho soviet foreign for-eign minister. M. Tchltcherln. Considering Russia's geographical I position and the political boundaries uniting her with nomo of the Black i sea states, pays tho note. It should bo quito evidont that a peaceful solution solu-tion of the Near EaMorn problem Is Impossible without soviet participation participa-tion In the treaty negotiations TTTUv PACT It IX OtiMZKD, It Is pointed out that, having recoi?-I recoi?-I nlzed. by the treaty of March, 1921, the Turkish frontiers aa laid down ' by the Angora national pact, the ITus-j ITus-j slan government thereby took an effective ef-fective part In solving the Near East I question without limiting Itself to con-I con-I sldcratlon of the status of the straits of Dardanelles and the Bosphorus. Tho straits question, 1t Is added, cannot can-not be separated from tho problem I as a whole. "To place beforo Russia decisions already adopted without her participation." partici-pation." says the note, "would simply force Russia not to recognize these . decisions. "Desiring general peace and particularly par-ticularly a final solution In the Near i East, tho Russian government Is obliged to Insist catogoracllly upon i participation In the Near East conference con-ference In its totality and without re-i re-i strlctlons. DEMAND; VOICE, "Russia also desires the rlrSt to ; support the stipulations of the Russo-I Russo-I Turkish Moscow treaty, according to i which definite settlement of the- 1n-! 1n-! ternatlonal status of the straits ought I to be entrusted to a Black sea dele-I dele-I gatlon. I "In view of the approaching date of the conference whih will study j thu Near East problem as a whole, ths Russian government make." known that It demands participation In this conference, on the sarno hauls and on the same conditions as all tho other contracting parties." M. Tchltcherln calls attention to the fact thar nearly a month has pnrsM since a note was sent to the entente powers and other countries empha- ni.lng Russia's special Interest in a peaceful solution In the Npar East. oo |