yes george hi again & thanx very much for the
attentive review
& of course you are right to be amused by the apparent
claim
but what i do earnestly mean to convey by this term
official united nations
is that all 173 of the listed trijunctions & no others
in the world
so far as i can see
are actually comprised of & by 3 fully acknowledged
sovereign official member states of the united nations
& so i do not mean to include the tripoints produced
by nonmember nonsovereign entities such as western
sahara
which is generally even if not unanimously recognized
as de facto a part of the sovereign member state of
morocco
& thus not at all in its own right an official united
nation
so to say
notwithstanding that it does own an official iso
digraph
eh
nor gaza
which is still de facto a part of sovereign israel
i suppose
nor somaliland
which is still de jure a part of sovereign somalia
etc
etc
but the presumably imminent kosovo tripoints in
particular are promising to become a special problem
for this registry
since kosovo isnt likely to be admitted to the turtle
bay country club any time soon
tho its sovereignty may attain to a broad or even
majority recognition
but fortunately we dont have to worry about that for
at least a few more days
--- George Huguet <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sorry not to be in the loop of the "in crowd", but I
> am not sure whether
> the "at last an official united nations tripoint
> registry" falls into
> the "official skateboard of northern hemisphere
> summer" category, or did I
> miss some posting here or elsewhere which documents
> that some agency of
> the U.N. has conferred "official" status to this
> particular listing?
>
> Secondly, does anyone believe that Algeria would
> consider that they have a
> tripoint with Mauritania and Morocco? Seems to me
> that they would consider
> that tripoint to be with Mauritania and Western
> Sahara. Any comments?
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