As reported by RIA Novosti, Rosa Chemeris, a member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and currently under UK sanctions, has suggested that the Shevardnadze-Baker agreement between the USSR and the United States concerning the delimitation of the Bering Strait might be annulled.
The Shevardnadze-Baker Agreement delineates economic zones, the continental shelf in the Chukchi and Bering Seas, and territorial waters in a small region within the Bering Strait, spanning the islands of Ratmanov (Russia) and Kruzenshtern (USA).
Signed on June 1st, 1990, in Washington, the agreement awaits ratification from the Soviet and subsequently Russian authorities, existing provisionally per the terms established upon signing.
This suggestion comes in the wake of the recent denunciation of the 1956 agreement allowing British fishing vessels access to the Russian zone of the Barents Sea by the State Duma earlier on Wednesday, indicating a broader review of international agreements.
Main image: By Duma.gov.ru, CC BY 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=126998312
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