Fw: DANUBE CONVENTION

[Benjamin Rifkin]

> > From:
> >                 "M.Haynes" <LE1958 at wlv.ac.uk>
> >                 Thu, 20 May 1999 12:58:50 +0100
> >
> > Someone suggested to me that there an International Convention
> > protecting the Danube and that the destruction of the bridges on
> > the Serbian part which has blocked it is in violation of this. I have
> > not seen a discussion of this 'technical point' in Britain but I have
> > a vague recollection that such an agreement might have been made
> > in the nineteenth century coming out of the
> > Crimean War or Russo-Turkish War. Does any one know if there is such an
> > agreement, when it was made and whether it has any technical force
> > today?
> >
> > Mike Haynes,
> > School of Languages and European Studies,
> > University of Wolverhampton,
> > Wolverhampton,WV1 1SB
> > United Kingdom
> > 01902 322484
> > le1958 at wlv.ac.uk


> >                          Tue, 25 May 1999 00:32:24 -0400
>                    From:
>                          Lesia Chernihivska <lesia at efortress.com>

> Hello!
>
> There was a Danube Convention in olden times, but more significantly,
> there is a Danube Trade Convention, which has been in force since the
> end of WWII. Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia,
> Rumania, Bulgaria and USSR were the original signatories, but other
> nations have signed as political boundaries have changed, especially
> since the breakup of the USSR.
>
> For further information on this subject, please see the archive of the
> history list at www.infoukes.com, and check for the pertinent message
> dated:  23 May 1999.
>
> Lesia Chernihivska
> lesia at efortress.com
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