-- Most
Interesting GBBE Days
Monday 14 July
the GBBE group was invited for lunch
meal at the Border Police at the Lithuanian beach resort of Nida. The
journey was thereafter continuing further to not
less but three Latvian-Lithuanian border stations. Before that the
expedition last Sunday visited the Lithuanian-Russian border at
Panemune/Sovetsk including a visit to the border museum on Russian
side.
-- Our
expedition has so far been most successful, Mr. Hans Peter Nissen said. We have
felt like honored guests everywhere here in Lithuania, and had the
possibility to see much more than what we had expected beforehand. We have
collected a lot of material with us already, he declared. The UK researcher, Ms.
Ann Kennard made interviews of prewar citizens while the Memel area still
belonged to Germany. On Russian side we studies details from the former
German-Memel Area border station, Mr. Nissen tells. The Membel Area (around the
present city of Klaipeda) was controlled by British, French and even Japanese
forces under the League of Nations.
Today Monday
they visited the LTLV border marker No. 1 at the Baltic coast's beach and
Butinges border station at the LTLV highway border between Klaipeda and Liepaja.
Later they visited the Skuodas-Priekule (LTLV) border station and
eventually the Buknaiciai/Ezere (LTLV) border station.
Late this
night the eight person big group reaches Vilnius. Mr. Karolis Butkevicius who
has been interpreting during the last days leaves the GBBE in the city of
Siauliai, while this author continues as a guide. Tomorrow we will see the
demarcation works at the Byelorussian-Lithuanian border at Medininkai/Kamennyj
Log. Later the same day a visit to the only KGB museum and the geographical
center of Europe, both in the Lithuanian capital.
On Wednesday
the delegation is heading for East Lithuania, BYLTLV tripoint and
Latvia.