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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Would not the original treaty of sale, in 1867, have clearly defined the boundaries?

It did, very clearly. The islands are in Russia.

29 posted on 04/16/2012 1:33:43 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

If you read the article, the treaty of 1867 did not address these islands. Some were later discovered and “claimed” by an American afterwards. The U.S. has never officially asserted a claim to them. Clearly, any U.S. claim would be outside of the 1867 sale of Alaska. Certainly the Alaska legislation cannot have any say, since the Constitution leaves foreign relations to the Federal Government, and the land in question was never part of Alaska. In this case, I agree with the Russians and the State Department.


33 posted on 04/17/2012 3:35:15 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
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