2) The U.S. has never actually claimed the islands. Russia claimed the islands back under the Tzars.
3) The treaty on the maritime border was negotiated in 1990 and ratified by the Senate and signed by President Bush in 1991.
A map of the islands:
Might as well give Russia & China a Grant Deed to the USA as “tenants-in-common”
PING to Obama treason. Gross Alaska snub.
I’m almost afraid to click on these links. It’s one nightmare after the next.
This myth made it to the Washington Times?
We’ve been reading about it Free Republic since the mid-years of George Bush.
Good GOD Almighty, is there NOONE on our side with the balls to go after the Regime on this kind of stuff??? Treason if I ever saw it.
Paging Governor Sarah Palin. Wait....she’s not governor anymore. Rats!!
Quietly, State Dept. Turns Over American Islands to Russia, Others
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/927764/posts
Posted on Thu Jun 12 2003
Posted lots of other times as well.
2) The U.S. has never actually claimed the islands. Russia claimed the islands back under the Tzars.
3) The treaty on the maritime border was negotiated in 1990 and ratified by the Senate and signed by President Bush in 1991.
A map of the islands:
For your reference; http://i43.tinypic.com/of4uq8.jpgI am not the biggest fan of Russia as most of you know, but claiming those islands is a stretch. They are behind the International Date Line and are much closer to Russia than the United States. Now if Obama was ceding Little Diomede Island or the Western Aleutians, then I would be griping.
Wanna bet the development proceeds wind up in his/his buddy’s pockets?
And. STILL, we lack the outrage, the passion for our country to take to the streets and protest this latest insult to our nation by the Kenyan.
My God, WHERE are our patriots!!???
Is obama being extorted?
Status of Wrangel and Other Arctic Islands
http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/eur/rls/fs/20922.htm
No negotiations regarding the U.S.-Russia maritime boundary have occurred since 1990, when the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement was signed. The negotiations that led to that agreement did not address the status of Wrangel Island, Herald Island, Bennett Island, Jeannette Island, or Henrietta Island, all of which lie off Russia's Arctic coast, or Mednyy (Copper) Island or rocks off the coast of Mednyy Island in the Bering Sea. None of the islands or rocks above were included in the U.S. purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867, and they have never been claimed by the United States, although Americans were involved in the discovery and exploration of some of them.
The U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on June 1, 1990, defines our maritime boundary in the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and northern Pacific Ocean. The U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement is a treaty that requires ratification by both parties before it formally enters into force. The treaty was made public at the time of its signing. In a separate exchange of diplomatic notes, the two countries agreed to apply the agreement provisionally. The United States Senate gave its advice and consent to ratification of the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement on September 16, 1991.
The Russian Federation informed the United States Government by diplomatic note dated January 13, 1992, that it “continues to perform the rights and fulfill the obligations flowing from the international agreements” signed by the Soviet Union. The United States and the Russian Federation, which is considered to be the sole successor state to the treaty rights and obligations of the former Soviet Union for the purposes of the U.S.-USSR Maritime Boundary Agreement, are applying the treaty on a provisional basis, pending its ratification by the Russian Federation.
The United States regularly holds discussions with Russia on Bering Sea issues, but these discussions do not affect the placement of the U.S.-Russia boundary or the jurisdiction over any territory or the sovereignty of any territory. The U.S. has no intention of reopening discussion of the 1990 Maritime Boundary Treaty.
Note: I believe this is the source of the map used in the other websites.
World Nut Daily spraying its computer screen.
Ye Gods, these islands have been de facto Russian territory forever. Is there some plot to make conservatives look silly for trying to hang Obama for one of the few things he’s got right?
Well. By giving the oil to Russia there is a pretty goodchance it will get on the world market and help keep the price of oil down. Keeping it in the USA will simply lock it up forever or for so long as the USA remains.
Summary of Giveaway of 8 American Alaskan Islands to the Russian Government
Here is the summary:
http://statedepartmentwatch.org/GiveawaySummary.htm
If this is true, I can’t see how dear leader will get away with it.
