FY 76 KIQ STRATEGY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80B01500R000200250009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 19, 1998
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: February 3, 1975
• Content Type: REPORT

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FY KIQ STRATEGY REPORT
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KIQ 1 : What are the negotiating positions and bargaining
vulnerabilities of key countries on the form and content of a
Law of the Sea treaty?
Give particular attention to issues on which the attitudes
and intentions of these countries are likely to be so con-
tentious as to jeopardize prospects for a treaty even
minimally acceptable to the United States.
COLLECTION STRATEGY
A. T goes of Information
Reporting in support of US Law of tI.e Sea (LOS) nego-
tiations during the fiscal yearArequirel. information
on foreign country attitudes on the following issues
which are being considered.for inclusion in a com-
prehensive international LOS treaty:
-- breadth of the territorial sea and passage through
and over international straits
-- breadth and jurisdiction of a coastal economic zone
and navigational freedom therein
-- jurisdiction over mineral resources of the deep
seabed
-- management and conservation of fisheries
-- marine pollution -- vessel source, seabed source
-- freedom of scientific research
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-- jurisdiction over petroleum deposits in conti-
nental margin even where it extends beyond the
200-mile economic zone
-- treaty dispute settlement mechanisms
2. Information on each country's vital marine activities
is highly important. Reporting should cover offshore
resource exploitation, transport and security needs,
and international political activities and alignments
that would have a major influence on a country's
LOS negotiating position.
3 Biographic information on each country's LOS negotiators
is also of importance.
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