does it say anything about extraterrestrial rights

this is a great topic for alienplace & foreignmatter too btw
2 great new discussion groups for people who are interested in places that are under
various sorts of extraneous ownership & or control

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus" <mcmanus71496@m...>
wrote:

> I have been able to glean the following regarding the Baikonur Cosmodrome:
>
> The huge cosmodrome covers 6,717 square kilometers of land located 370 km

southwest of the namesake town of Baikonur. Upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union
the cosmodrome was placed for a time under the auspices of the CIS. The Republic of
Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation entered into a lease agreement in 1994 that was to
last for 20 years. In 2004, it was replaced by a new agreement that lasts until 2050. The
payment made by Russia is US$115 million annually. Most Russian military missile testing
has been removed to a new base at Plesetsk in Russia. The Russian civilian/commercial
space program remains, with very little military presence at all. Kazakhstan reserves the
right to approve each individual Russian launch and to use the site itself for its own space
ambitions and for joint Kazakh/Russian efforts. The newest launch complex at Baikonur is
a joint Kazakh/Russian facility. The first Kazakh launch is expected next year. The recent
flurry of media attention was in commemoration of cosmodrome's 50th anniversary.

>
> A scholarly article (which I have not seen) and the appended agreements are found as

linked below. Anyone having Lexis or Westlaw subscriptions can retrieve them, or
perhaps the journal could be found at a library.

> 30 JOURNAL OF SPACE LAW, NO. 1, SPRING, 2004.
>
> Bjornerud, Maria. Baikonur continues: the new lease agreement between Russia and

Kazakhstan. 30 J. Space L 13-25 (2004). [LEXIS] [WESTLAW]

> Appended Agreements:
>
> On Basic Principles and Terms of the Utilization of the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Agreement Between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan, March 28,
1994. 30 J. Space L. 26-31 (2004). [LEXIS] [WESTLAW]

>
> Agreement Between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan on the

Cooperation in the Effective Use of the Baikonur Facility, January 9, 2004. 30 J. Space L.
32-34 (2004) [LEXIS] [WESTLAW]

>
> Memorandum on Further Development of Cooperation between the Russian

Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan in Ensuring the Functioning of the Baikonur
Complex, January 9, 2004. 30 J. Space L. 35-36 (2004). [LEXIS] [WESTLAW]

>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "L. A. Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 10:07 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Russian Lease in Kasakhstan
>
>
> >I find a big difference. A leased territory is very different from
> > either a fully sovereign base or a base operated under a status of
> > forces agreement. There are always interesting questions about
> > whether "vestigial" areas like these are still sovereign Russian
> > (exclaves), extraterritorial, occupied by Russia, tolerated until
> > removed or under a stationing agreement of some sort. Shades of status.
> >
> > Len