Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Cyprus - SBA Maritime Boundaries
Date: Jul 23, 2005 @ 13:05
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...>)
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> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "L. A.http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/2158
> Nadybal" <lnadybal@c...> wrote:
> > I just posted in "photos" a smalll version of the
> map of the nautical
> > boundaries that the US State Department created
> according to input
> > from the British, after DoS was unable to get the
> map attached to the
> > treaty.
> >
> > Anyone who would like the large scan can ask
> off-line.
> >
> > It is clear that the eastern SBA forms a closed
> area - the E & W
> > borders meet about 32 nautical miles off shore
> (within which there are
> > international waters eliminating any chance of the
> area being an
> > enclave or an exclave. The British claim 3 miles
> of sovereign
> > territory off shore under existing treaties to
> which the British
> > subscribe, and the Cypriots claim 12.
> >
> > With the SBA also comprised of a pumping station
> or whatever it is,
> > the sea boundaries would be incomplete, unless the
> pumping station on
> > the coast has no maritime component (and is
> therefore enclaved). Can
> > anyone help with that?
> >
> >
> > LN
>
> yes
> as you have somewhat correctly recalled
> the power station was believed to have no maritime
> component when last reported
>
>http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/ls049.pdf
> but also
> beyond the claimed territorial seas of 3nm & 12nm
> from coastal baselines respectively
> the boundaries shown on your map were purely
> hypothetical
> as was explained in its accompanying source document
>
> & they most probably still are____________________________________________________
>
> so here again it is only your idea of what is clear
> that is confused
>
>
> assumptive reasoning
> while sometimes very useful
> can if carelessly applied actually erode clarity
>
>
> no multipoints however were injured or even
> considered in the making of these messages