Obama Giving Away Eight Alaskan Islands To Russia

The giveaway of 8 American Alaskan islands and vast resource-rich seabeds to the Russians is
underway by the U.S. State Department in the guise of an agreement on a maritime boundary
between Alaska and Siberia.

In the mid-1970s countries adopted the concept of exclusive economic zones (EEZ) and
fishery conservation zones extending 200 nautical miles from their coastlines. If two countries
are within 400 miles of each other, they need to negotiate a division of the seabeds by a
"maritime boundary". It is usually some variation of an equidistant line between the two
coastlines. For the U.S. this has been necessary vis-a-vis Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Russia,
among others.


[link to www.statedepartmentwatch.org]