MOSCOW. Sept 16 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Prosecutor General's Office intends to make its views known on the so-called Baker-Shevardnadze agreement on the division of the Bering and Chukchi Seas.
"We have started checks that will lead to evaluating the legitimacy of the agreement and the activities of officials having a hand in it," Deputy Prosecutor General Konstantin Chaika said in Moscow on Monday.
Chaika heads the office's working group set up in response to a complaint filed with that agency by Alexander Nazarov, head of the Federation Council's North and Small Ethnic Groups Committee.
Nazarov believes that then Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze acted irresponsibly in negotiating and signing the agreement changing the 1867 division line and denying Russian fishermen entry to the 200-mile zone off the U.S. coasts.
The United States has ratified the agreement, but Russia has not.