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dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts) Fri Oct 4, 2013, 08:47 AM Oct 2013

Source: Daily Star

AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands launched legal action against Russia to free Greenpeace activists charged with piracy after staging a protest at an offshore oil platform in the Arctic, the Dutch government said on Friday.

"The Netherlands today began an arbitration procedure on the basis of the (United Nations) Convention on the Law of the Sea," Frans Timmermans, foreign minister, wrote in a letter to parliament.

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Oct-04/233563-netherlands-launches-legal-action-over-detained-greenpeace-activists.ashx#ixzz2gkzUEWUh

Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/International/2013/Oct-04/233563-netherlands-launches-legal-action-over-detained-greenpeace-activists.ashx#axzz2gkzIPBX8

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Netherlands launches legal action over detained Greenpeace activists (Original Post) dipsydoodle Oct 2013 OP

I love the Dutch. nt awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #1

Putin: Greenpeace Activists Aren't Pirates bananas Oct 2013 #2

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1. I love the Dutch. nt

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 12:21 PM

Oct 2013

(27,509 posts)

2. Putin: Greenpeace Activists Aren't Pirates

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 06:59 PM

Oct 2013

Putin, speaking at a forum on Arctic affairs, said that "it's completely obvious they aren't pirates."

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