Minister Verhagen steunt Terreur 5

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Verhagen: actie Iran is daad van staatsterrorisme

30 MAART 2007

BREMEN (ANP) - De Europese Unie ziet de aanhouding door Iran van vijftien Britse militairen als "een daad van staatsterrorisme". Dat zei minister Maxime Verhagen van Buitenlandse Zaken vrijdag na afloop van informeel overleg met zijn EU-collega's in Bremen.

De EU veroordeelde verder de arrestatie en het vasthouden door Iran van de vijftien Britse marinemensen. De unie vraagt hun onmiddellijke vrijlating.
Als de Britten niet "op korte termijn" worden vrijgelaten, zal de EU beslissen over "passende maatregelen". Wat die zijn, wilde vrijdag niemand zeggen. Tot het opschorten van bezoeken van ministers, besloten ze in elk geval nog niet.
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Na 3 jaar leven we opeens in een totaal andere wereld met schijnbaar andere wetten, zie:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Iranian_seizure_of_Royal_Navy_personnel

Information provided by Britain initially consistently placed the boats in Iraqi waters. However, the subsequent report by the British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee confirmed that the Ministry of Defence map presented to the worldwide media was "inaccurate" as it presented a boundary line when no maritime boundary between the two countries has been agreed upon, and so "The Government was fortunate that it was not in Iran's interests to contest the accuracy of the map.” The Foreign Affairs Committee also criticized the government for failing to contact a key Iranian negotiator in a timely manner. Reports in April 2008 citing documents from the MoD inquiry into the incident state that the British sailors captured by Iran were in disputed waters, that the US-led coalition had drawn a boundary line between Iran and Iraq without informing the Iranians, and that Iranian coastal protection vessels regularly crossed this coalition defined boundary.

Intense diplomatic efforts were made to secure the release of the detainees.

The incident took place closer to Iranian than Iraqi land above the high-water mark, but this has no legal significance.

While innocent passage is permitted in each others' waters, boarding and compliance inspections in another state's waters would not be lawful.