Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Historic geographic anomalies<br/>
Date: Jan 02, 2001 @ 23:57<br/>
Author: Brendan Whyte (&quot;Brendan Whyte&quot; &lt;brwhyte@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-30088426"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;      David, Porkkala was a soviet (I think the land<br/>
&gt;was leased) base in Finland.  It is like Guantanamo or<br/>
&gt;the Cypriot bases or the treaty ports in China.  Even<br/>
&gt;Panama Canal Zone was similar.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>No, the Cypriot bases are Brit sovereign terriroty.<br/>
All cyprus was British until 1960. Some (ie 99%) was made independent as the <br/>
Rep of Cyprus. The rest stayed British. Thus these bases are NOT like <br/>
Guantanamo or Porkkala, in that the Cypriots have not leased them to the UK. <br/>
When the brits want to leave they will give them to Cyprus (they can&#39;t sell <br/>
them to someone else), but they are British sovereign territory.<br/>
Thus the bases are usually labelled UKSB: UK Sovereign Base, or UK Sovereign <br/>
Military base.<br/>
<br/>
Brendan<br/>
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