Subject: Re: PRVI
Date: Dec 16, 2003 @ 17:12
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)
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> Earlier, in another context, Mike wrote:figuring
>
> > & the problems of prusvin & prusvis are largely confined to
> > out how to balance the effects of the 9nm regime of puerto ricowith
> > those of the 3nm regime of the virgin islandsexactly how it
>
> > probably by first giving the 3nm full effect
> > & then wrapping the 9nm around it as much as possible
>
> > tho i could imagine giving them a proportional effect too
> > &or even cutting a clean meridional division between them
> > or some other solution
>
> > but i assume this remains undone & so is only putative in any case
> > & therefore maybe not so pressing or problematic as the others
>
> I, also, assume that this remains undone, but I can tell you
> would be done.yes i think this is exactly how it would be done if pr & vi were
>Territorial Sea and
> The first paragraph of Article 12 of the Convention on the
> Contiguous Zone says:other, neither
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>
> Where the coasts of two States are opposite or adjacent to each
> of the two States is entitled, failing agreement between them tothe contrary,
> to extend its territorial sea beyond the median line every point ofwhich is
> equidistant from the nearest points on the baselines from which thebreadth of
> the territorial seas of each of the two States is measured.limits would
> _______________________
>
> So, there would first be drawn a median line between the two closest
> Puertorriqueño and Virgin islands. Then the respective 9nm and 3nm
> extend outward against, but in no wise beyond, the median line.The median line
> would squarely whack off the arc of each, the wider arc of PuertoRico much more
> bluntly so.3nm arc
>
> The points PRUSVIN and PRUSVIS would be located where the Virgin
> encounters the median line.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA