Posted on 05/06/2015 4:47:49 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Workers laying a cable beneath the Baltic Sea are on the front line in Lithuania's struggle for energy independence from Moscow.
Their adversary: the Russian Navy.
No shots have been fired, but construction crews laying the NordBalt cable linking Lithuania and Sweden have received unwelcome visits in the last month from Russian warships probing into the construction area in the Baltic state's exclusive economic zone.
Frustrated that its diplomatic protests have had no effect, NATO member Lithuania says it will consider legal action if the Russian moves don't stop.
"We've already informed our transatlantic partners of the issue and will continue raising it on other occasions both with the Russian Federation and other international partners," Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius told RFE/FL.
"If similar incidents happen again, the possibility of employing international legal instruments against the Russian Federation will be considered," Linkevicius said.
Sweden, Lithuania's main partner in the NordBalt project, has also taken issue with what one member of its parliament called a "growing pattern" of Russian provocations.
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Poopin once again making this world a much safer and better place.
This is law of the sea treaty stuff. the EEZ can go 200 miles off your coast and only applies to subsurface economic rights.
Its not the same as the 12 mile territorial limit, anyone can sail into the EEZ. This same thing happens with Iceland and fishing rights.
It’s gotten nasty there before.
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