London Conference

…matter, as chairman of the London Conference, Palmerston first showed his diplomatic proficiency. The outcome was an independent constitutional Belgium, with its neutrality guaranteed by the Five Powers in a famous “scrap of paper.”

…from the meeting held in London in 1830 that endorsed Belgian independence to the meeting in 1912–13, also held in London, to resolve the Balkan Wars. The Concert was stretched and then disregarded altogether between 1854 and 1870, during the Crimean War and the unifications of Italy and Germany. The…

…1831, an international conference in London (under the influence of the new liberal governments in France and Britain) recognized Belgium as an independent, neutral state, its neutrality to be guaranteed by the European powers.