Imran William Smith said on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:46:04AM +0800,:
Ugh. Oh. This place is situated SIX miles from shore of England. India's territorial waters extend twenty nautical miles.
I am not very sure that the claim of territorial independence stands - they seem to be within English territorial waters - and subject to Major's* laws.
(*) John Major, if you did not get. He happens to be the major (pun intended) ally for the president of a particular country, who was declared elected in the absence of majority votes, and then let himself loose upon another country ... This chap will not require any major (again ...) incentive to declare that this islet is within English territorial waters.
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