House Resolution Asks Russia to Demilitarize Kaliningrad International Security Studies (UCISS)
The Baltic-American Freedom League (BAFL) is seeking support for House Concurrent Resolution 51, introduced by Representative Christopher Cox, R-CA, 47th Dist., earlier this year. The resolution calls on Russia to demilitarize the Kaliningrad area, and makes the following points, among others:
- Russia's fifty year occupation of Kaliningrad, formerly German territory, remains unrecognized by international law.
- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland view the military forces in Kaliningrad as a threat to their sovereignty.
- Between December 1994 and March 1995 Russian military rail traffic traveling from Kaliningrad to Russia by way of Lithuania totaled 2,148 train cars, 310 of which carried undeclared hazardous cargoes, some probably en route to Chechnya.
- 5,339 violations of Lithuanian air space were registered between April 1992 and May 1995. Three-fifths of these unathorized flights were to or from the Kaliningrad area.
- Russian troops in Kaliningrad alone�an area of only 15,000 square km.�outnumber U.S. troops
in Europe by a margin of two to one.
For further information, contact BAFL representative Aivars Jermanis at
(818) 247-8390.
Information is also available on the Internet at:
http://www.saeima.lanet.lv/
This article is from the October 1995 issue of
Civil Society ... East and West
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Last updated: March 28 1996
