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The restrictions in the case of the port of Antivari, agreed by Montenegro itself in 1909, remain in force.
(3) Finally, the islands not accorded to Italy. Note: 3.
The following lands in the Adriatic Sea are accorded by the Powers of the Quadruple Alliance to the territories of _Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro_: In the north of the Adriatic, _the entire coast, commencing from the Bay of Volosca_ on the frontier of Istria as far as the _northern frontier_ of Dalmatia, including the whole of the coast-line now belonging to Hungary, the entire coast of Croatia, the port of Fiume and the small harbours of Novi and Carlopago, as also the islands of Velia, Pervicchio, Gregorio, Goli and Arbe.
In the south of the Adriatic, where Serbia and Austrian interests lie, the entire coast from Cape Planca as far as the river Drina, with the principal ports of _Spaluto, Ragusa, Cattaro, Antivari, Dulcigno and San Giovanni di Medua_, and with the islands of Greater Zirona, Pua, Solta, Brazza, Jaklian and Calamotta. The port of Durazzo can be accorded to an independent Mohammedan State of Albania. Sec.6.Italy to be given full possession of _Valona, the Island of Sasseno_, and a sufficiently extensive territory to protect it in military respects, approximately from the River Vojusa in the north and east to the boundary of the Chimara district in the south. Sec.7.Italy, receiving the Trentino according to Sec.4, Dalmatia and the islands of the Adriatic according to Sec.5, as well as Valona, is not to oppose the possible wishes of France, Great Britain and Russia in case of the establishment of a small autonomous neutralised state in Albania, as to _division of the northern and southern frontier belts of Albania between Montenegro, Serbia and Greece_.
The southern strip of coast from the frontier of the Italian district of Valona as far as Cape Stiloa to be subject to neutralisation. Italy has the prospect of _right to determine the foreign policy of Albania_; in any case, Italy undertakes to assent to the cession of a sufficient territory to Albania to make the frontiers of the latter on the west of the Ochrida Lake coincide with the frontiers of Greece and Serbia. Sec.8.Italy to have full possession of all the _islands of the Dodecanessus_ which it occupies at present. Sec.9.France, Great Britain and Russia accept in principle the fact of _Italy's interest in maintaining political equilibrium_ in the Mediterranean, as also Italy's right, in case of any _division of Turkey, to a like portion with themselves_ in the basin of the Mediterranean, and that in the part adjacent to the _province of Adalia_, where Italy has already acquired particular rights, and developed particular interests, to be noted in the Italo-British Convention.
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