Out of curiosity (and I do apologize if this has been mentioned in the thread-—my FRee time is zero. I’m replying at work) wouldn’t this considered a treaty ? Wouldn’t the Imperial Senate have to approve this ?
I know I’m being a tad naive here, but I still hope for happy endings.
It was a treaty. It was done in 1867. The 1990 Agreement between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the maritime boundary starts with the following:
The Parties agree that the line described as the “western limit” in article 1 of the 1867 Convention, as defined in article 2 of this Agreement, is the maritime boundary between the United States and the Soviet Union.
They made no changes to the original treaty. Only clarified how the new claims of 200 nautical miles maritime boundary was handled as the nations are closer at this point than 400 nm, ie, the 200 nm from each side overlap.
http://www.un.org/Depts/los/LEGISLATIONANDTREATIES/PDFFILES/TREATIES/USA-RUS1990MB.PDF
No president, including Obama, has done any action on this since 1990.