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To: thackney; Cicero; Candor7; LucyT
But the map is something made up.

So the map included in The Agreement Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics On the Maritime Boundary, with Annex, Signed at Washington, June 1, 1990 is something made up?
56 posted on 03/17/2012 11:15:32 AM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: Brown Deer
So the map included in The Agreement Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics On the Maritime Boundary, with Annex, Signed at Washington, June 1, 1990 is something made up?

It was not part of the treaty you tried to link it to. It was made afterwards.

The treaty is clear these islands were not part of the 1967 agreement. Do you agree with that?

61 posted on 03/18/2012 5:04:50 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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From your link on the 1990 Agreement:

The preamble to the Agreement recalls the 1867 Convention and expresses the desire of the two Parties to resolve issues concerning their maritime boundary. It also sets forth their objective of ensuring that where coastal state jurisdiction could be exercised in the absence of a maritime boundary by either Party in accordance with international law, such jurisdiction is exercised by either the United States or the Soviet Union.

Article 1 records the agreement of the Parties that the line described as the “western limit” in the 1867 Convention (the 1867 Convention Line) is the maritime boundary. It also describes the legal effect of the boundary, obligating each Party to respect the boundary as limiting the extent of its coastal state jurisdiction otherwise permitted by international law for any purpose. It thereby settles the issue of where each side may, consistent with international law, manage offshore resources (the fishery resources of the waters as well as the oil and gas and other resources of the seabed and subsoil) and other oceans uses in marine areas that both claimed or could have claimed.

Article 2 describes the maritime boundary and indicates that it is defined by lines connecting geographic positions set forth in an Annex, which is an integral part of the Agreement.

The maritime boundary proceeds north and south of the Bering Strait from the mid-point between Big Diomede Island (Soviet) and Little Diomede Island (U.S.). North of the Strait, the boundary extends due north along the meridian of this mid-point as far as permitted under international law.

South of the Strait, the boundary generally extends from the same mid point southwestward to 167 degrees East Longitude (the end point of the Convention Line, as described in the 1867 Convention). This end point lies slightly beyond 200 nautical miles of the respective coasts of the United States and the Soviet Union.

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The above confirms the original treaty lines.

Which of those islands do you believe lies East of this line?

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Also, the map you posted before, with a more eastern line than the treaty line, does not exist in this document.

Did you read it before you posted? Or did you copy the link from some tin-foil hat conspiracy society?

63 posted on 03/18/2012 5:14:07 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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