America on Wednesday reacted warily to studies that Russia might revise the borders of its territorial waters within the area, TURAN’s Washington correspondent studies.
In a draft proposal reported by some Kremlin-backed media, Russia’s Protection Ministry appeared to counsel updating the coordinates used to measure the strip of territorial waters off its mainland coast and that of its islands within the Baltic Sea.
The since-deleted draft decree authored by the Protection Ministry appeared on the federal government’s authorized portal on Tuesday, and argued that the present maritime border wanted revising as a result of it was established in 1985 on the premise of nautical charts now out of use.
“We noticed the studies and are watching the state of affairs carefully,” a State Division spokesperson instructed TURAN’s Washington correspondent Wednesday afternoon.
“We encourage Russia to make clear its intentions and guarantee they’re in step with worldwide legislation and current agreements,” a State Division spokesperson added.
The plan additionally riled Moscow’s neighbors: “Russia’s actions are seen as a deliberate, focused, escalatory provocation to intimidate neighboring international locations and their societies,” Lithuania’s international ministry mentioned in a press release Wednesday morning.
“That is additional proof that Russia’s aggressive and revisionist coverage is a menace to the safety of neighbouring international locations and Europe as a complete,” the assertion reads.
