Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] «Neutral» BYLTLV treaty
Date: Jul 20, 2003 @ 19:43
Author: Lowell G. McManus ("Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@...>)
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It's a bureaucratic accommodation to the reality that people are going to want
to get their pictures taken at this spot. After all, the three governments have
gone to more trouble and expense than necessary to dress it up with their
national colors, etc. It's a tourist attraction!

Lowell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>
To: "Boundary Point" <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 10:18 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] «Neutral» BYLTLV treaty


> As earlier published on my net page
> http://home.no.net/enklaver/borders/byltlv.htm a 6 m² square is somewhat
> neutral in the sense that citizens from any country can visit this area
> without visa.
>
> This information was confirmed to me by Senior Commissioner Mr. Vytautas
> Lekavicius of the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service at the GBBE
> expedition to Ignalina area. He told me this agreement was made as "a three
> countries agreement" (sic). (I will continue to search for a copy of this
> treaty.)
>
> I want to emphasize that this «neutral» area is not a no man's land, but an
> area which is more open to aliens than usual.
>
> Jan
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