Subject: Re: French Properties on St Helena
Date: May 03, 2005 @ 00:11
Author: aletheiak ("aletheiak" <aletheiak@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...> wrote:what specifically is wrong
>
> but territorial extraterritoriality
> if ever there was any
> was extinguished by the vienna treaty of 1961...
> WRONG. ...and you have no proof of the assertion with respect to this
> place. The treaty of '61 didn't apply to this place. Evidence: the
> sign remained after the treaty and so did the non-German administration.
> In fact, the treaty didn't apply to enclaves like Büsinge, which are
> indesputably "extrateritorial" with respect to the territory, laws,
> people and economy of the countries that surround them.
>
> To Lowell: It was housing and seat of operations for the Russians
> assigned to watch allied movements in the West Sector of W. Germany -
> put into place by the Hubner-Malanin agreement to reduce cold war
> tensions and reduce flare ups that kept starting because of
> perceptions of maneuvers being threats.
>
> A similar post that the Russians kept out of the DDR / East German
> territory (like W. Berlin and its' enclaves themselves were not part
> of the East regime) existed in Potsdam - which the Russians placed at
> the disposal of the US. There were two others that the Russians
> operated out of, one was operated by the French in Baden-Baden and the
> other was in the north, operated by the British in what was the
> British sector in western Germany.
>
> The Russians murdered an American who worked at the Potsdam site (I
> think in 1980s - after the '61 treaty!!!), and claimed he was snooping
> at Russian military operations where he wasn't supposed to be. The
> Germans had no legal part to play (nor did they play any role) in the
> resolution of the incident because it was extraterritorial under the
> agreement that W Germany respected as a limit on its sovereignty when
> it came into existence and when the allies conferred sovereignty on it
> in 1955.
>
> Len