RUSSIA-LITHUANIA
February 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA and Lithuania's promise to environmentally assess oil exploration and production in the Baltic Sea, 22 kilometres from a World Heritage site, has prompted UN cultural organisation UNESCO to abandoned plans to declare the Curonian Spit officially endangered. It straddles Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad.
RUSSIA and Lithuania's promise to environmentally assess oil exploration and production in the Baltic Sea, 22 kilometres from a World Heritage site, has prompted UN cultural organisation UNESCO to abandoned plans to declare the Curonian Spit officially endangered. It straddles Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad.
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