The Peace Conference At Paris-Around The Table, Aali Pacha, Baron de Bourqueney, Count Walewski, Lord Cowley, Count Buol, Earl of Clarendon, Baron Brunnow, Count De Cavour and Count Orloff

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The Paris Peace Conference was held in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Paris between February 25 and March 30, 1856, with the aim of ending the Crimean War and reorganizing the balance of power in Europe. It resulted in the Treaty of Paris signed on March 30, 1856. The territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire was guaranteed at the conference attended by representatives of the Ottoman Empire, England, France, Russia, Austria and the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, the Black Sea was declared a neutral zone, and it was confirmed that the Straits would remain closed during periods outside of war. The Ottoman Empire was included in the family of European states for the first time with full diplomatic equality, while it made a commitment to develop the rights of non-Muslim subjects. Russia lost its military superiority in the Black Sea, and Wallachia-Moldavia and Serbia were granted semi-autonomy. The conference ensured European peace in the short term, but in the long term it initiated a new era that increased external interventions on Ottoman lands.