Subject: Belgian lower order claves
Date: Mar 14, 2001 @ 10:03
Author: Peter Smaardijk (Peter Smaardijk <peter.smaardijk@...>)
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> >If you accept the above argument, the only islands which would meetThere are two exclaves (I would say)/fragments (you would say) I know of: the municipality of Voeren
> >Brendan's strict definition of an enclave
>
> ...AT SEA...
>
> >would be those whose
> >territorial sea is totally surrounded by the territorial sea of
> >another state - and, as yet, I have been unable to think of any....
>
> Thanks Martin.
>
> Enclaves are most useful when considered for areas of equal/similar
> sovereignty, ie EITHER internal units OR nations, OR EEZs/Highseas, etc.
> Thus we can think of high seas enclaves in EEZs or EEZs inside other EEZs
> (ie St Pierre, Channel Islands, Monaco) or national level enclaves in
> nations, but enclaves at one level bordering on a unit of higher level of
> sovereignty are less interesting as they have fewer practical implications.
> Hence less interest in the 2 or 3 Belgian provincial fragments that adjoin
> its neighbouring nations.