& now comes this pointed reminder from india that the legal cninnpw tripoint really isnt in
any doubt
http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=16087
--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos <aletheiak@...> wrote:
>
> yikes
> last week as you may recall from the attached
> nepal was claiming china had nibbled off 75 sq km of
> the kalapani area adjoining &
> including their western tripoint
> & today she is claiming india has done the exact same
> thing there
> except the supposed damages are 5 times as great in
> this case
> http://newsblaze.com/story/20051210073733nnnn.nb/newsblaze/OPINIONS/
Opinions.html
>
> but it may be worth noting also
> that this new article reiterates the contention made
> in the earlier one that the tripoint is at
> the source of the kali aka mahakali aka kalapani river
>
> in accordance with 19th century treaties
> whereas the 1961 cnnp agreement in
> http://www.law.fsu.edu/library/collection/LimitsinSeas/IBS050.pdf
> at appendix 2 under article 1
> seems to place cninnpw at the watershed trijunction of
> this kali & 2 distinctly different
> rivers named tinkar & mapchu or karnali
> which must be nearby but actually in a different
> location
> so maybe it is worth asking too if a single
> miscomprehension could explain a double nibble
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, aletheia kallos
> <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> >
> > fortunately on an otherwise slow news day in the
> world
> > of multipointing
> > it turns out i did initially miss the real
> tripointing
> > import of this news bulletin from yesterday
> > http://www.kantipuronline.com/kolnews.php?&nid=58813
> > which is that
> > even if there is an 1815 de jure cninnpw tripoint at
> > the source of the kalapani
> > nevertheless cninnpw has actually been since at
> least
> > 1962 de facto
> > & apparently at least 3 villages down the kalapani
> > from the source point
> >
> > & these images are closer to this de jure kalapani
> > source tripoint than we have ever come before
> > http://www.euttaranchal.com/focus/kalapani.php
> > possibly because i had been misspelling it kalipani
> >
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/BoundaryPoint/message/18549
> > where btw the reference to local maoist guerrillas
> now
> > seems a misidentification also
> > since this fresher news report makes the ones in the
> > immediate triarea more likely to be chinese regulars
> >
> > my guess tho is that within the mentioned 75 sq km
> of
> > supposedly chinese occupied nepal
> > de jure cnninpw lies a very few km upstream from the
> > image at upper right
> > & de facto cninnpw a very few km downstream from it
>
>
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