ARRIVAL OF EGYPTIAN LOS DEL CHAIRMAN FURTHER DELAYED

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April 21, 1975
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RM 3020b 71 MFG. 2,'75 CABLE SEC DISSEM By Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S00697R00030009000a Q,' l J__PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PER. NOTIFIED 25XA1CTION 1F T 95784. C O N F I D E N T I A_L REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN IS$U1NG OFFICE IS PROHIBITED TOR : 2116 0 6 A .y\-Qkr y-- ) \. 0 R 2112101 APR 75 FM AMEMBASSY CAIRO TO RUFHGV/USMI SS ION GENEVA 369 INFO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 3454 BT C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMITED OFFICIAL USE CAIRO 3974 GENEVA FOR LOS DEL E, O, 11652: N/A TAGS: PLOS SUBJECT: ARRIVAL OF EGYPTIAN LOS DEL CHAIRMAN FURTHER DELAYED REF: CAIRO 3614 1, A MB A HM ED O SM AN DESIGNATED AS CHAIRMAN EGYPTIAN LOS DEL TO GENEVA CO NF HAS NOW ACCOMPANIED F ON MI N FAHMY TO MOSCOW. EMBASSY HAD INDICATED EARLIER HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON A "SPECIAL PROJECT" FOR FAHMY (REFTEL), 2, I N VIEW H I S LEGAL BACKGROUND AND INVOLVEMENT I N M E AND GENEVA PEACE CONF MATTERS, POSSBIILITY EXISTS OSMAN MAY NOT HOIN LOS DEL UNTIL FINAL SESST IONS, IF AT ALL, EILTS State Dept. review completed Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 no C 0 N F I D E N T I A L 25X1 (! ..^ RUN BY TOTAL COPIES CABLE SEC DISSEM BJ4' PER C O N F I D E N T I A L T 956613 E I A81 / PAGE 01 TORT 2120142 APR 75 R 2117021 APR 75 FM AMEMBASSY BUNN TO RUEHC/SECST AT E WASHDC 9553 RUFHGV/USM ISSI ON GENEVA 4085 INFO RUDKMDQ/AMEMBASSY MADRID 1092 0T er- N1 CO NF I D E N T I A L BONN 0 6 4 3 6-_~ Lf` REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 15 PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 41565 GIBRALTAR 4~~rd d V6T K%%6E ~~6ta 2l ~ of 496TROOO3OOO9OOO8-O GENEVA FOR LOS DELEGATION E.0- 11652: GDS 5 c~vi' TAGS; PLOS, SP, NATO SUBJECT: LOS - STRAITS REFSI BONN 6262 AND GENEVA 2572 1, ON APRIL 21 EMBASSY RECEIVED REPORT ON APRIL 17 APPROACH BY FRG AMBASSADOR VON LILIENFELD TO SPANISH FOREIGN OFFICE STATE SECRETARY ROVIRA IN PRESENCE ALSO OF HEAD OF SPANISH LOS DELEGATION (AND DIRECTOR GENERAL OF FOREIGN OFFICE PERSONNEL) ABAROA. 2, THE SPANISH REPRESENTATIVES STATED THAT THE CURRENT REGIME, MEANING PRESUMABLY INNOCENT PASSAGE IN STRAITS, APPEARS BEST TO THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. HOWEVER, GUS WOULD NOT OPPOSE EXTENSION OF TERRITORIAL WATERS TO 12 MILES. THEY FELT THAT INNOCENT PASSAGE IN STRAITS WAS IN INTEREST OF BOTH SPAIN AND WEST AND PROVIDED GREATER POSSIBILITY OF CONTROL WITH RESPECT TO NAVAL VESSELS INCLUDING SUBMARINES, FREE OR UNIMPEDED PASSAGE WOULD RESULT IN A LOSS OF CONTROL IN THE STRAITS OF GIBRALTAR, VLADIVOSTOCK AND THE DARDANELLES (SIC), 3, THE SPANISH REPRESENTATIVES REQUESTED TO BE GIVEN AN EXPLANATION OF THE MILITARY AND STRATEGIC CONSIDER- ATIONS WHICH HAD RESULTED IN THE NATO POSITION BEING VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL TO THE USSR POSITION IN THIS MATTER, INCLUDING WITH RESPECT TO SUBMERGED PASSAGE FOR NUCLEAR SUBMARINES. AN APPROXIMATION OF THE SPANISH POSITION TO THAT OF NATO WOULD BE POSSIBLE ONLY IN CONNECTION WITH CONSIDERATION OF THE ENTIRE COMPLEX OF THE SPANISH RELATIONSHIP TO NATO SPANISH BASE AGREEMENTS HAD PROVIDED GREATER BENE- FITS FOR NATO THAN FOR SPAIN, PASSAGE THROUGH FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE P I SUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT F T 95 8613 E I A810 PAGE 0 2- 02 TOR1212014E APR 75 PROBLEM FOR SPAIN WHICH INVOLVED A NEED FOR THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN TO THE PUBLIC THE ADVANTAGES THAT A SETTLEMENT WOULD PROVIDE FOR SPAIN, THE SPANISH REPS STATED THAT OVERFLIGHT OF THE STRAITS COULD NOT BE SETTLED IN THE CONTEXT OF A REGIME FOR THE STRAITS BUT SHOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF SEPARATE AGREEMENTS, 4, IN THE FRG AMBASSADORS COMMENTS, HE STATED THAT THE SPANISH POSITION CONCERNING THE STRAITS WAS OBVIOUSLY AN IMPORTANT POINT OF LEVERAGE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN IN ITS NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AND FOR SPAIN'S RELATION. SHIP TO NATO, HE ANTICIPATED THAT THE OLD IDEA OF THE CONVERSION OF GIBRALTAR TO A NATO BASE COULD ARISE. HILLENBRAND C 0 N F I D E N T I A L REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE Is PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE no Approved For ReleasaC20p2W8~21I: CDIA?gPI 2SP0~97LR000300090008-0 7-71 MFFGG 7-71 ,. . 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S0 697 0030009 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY / PER TOTAL COPIES ~ (RUN BY __..947VANC4~,OPY IS ACTION UNIT IT 25X1 T 95 55 35 C O N F I D E N T I A L STATE MESSAGE R 1916 47 FM USMIS TO RUEHC INFO RUEHDT/USMI SS ION USUN NEW YORK 1597 RUEH IA/USIA WASHDC 1466 CT0 N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 1 OF 2 GENEVA 2760 Q"M Comm 1 I SD CI I OS USIA - PASS IPS AND IBS E, 0116521 52; GDS v TAGS; PLOS SUBJECT; CLASSIFIED LOS WEEKLY SUMMARY FOR D/LOS, ENDING APRIL 16, 1975 to SUMMARY; MAJOR EVENT OF WEEK WAS CONSENSUS TO AUTHORIZE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES TO PREPARE SINGLE, UNIFIED TEXTS ON SUBJECTS WITHIN MANDATE OF THEIR COMMITTEES, OTHERWISE. ALMOST ALL NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUED IN PRIVATE IN SMALL, INFORMAL GROUPS WHERE STEADY PROGRESS IS BEING MADE TO NARROW DIFFERENCES. END SUMMARY, 2, COMMITTEE I; C- I HAS DECREASED NUMBER OF PUBLIC MEETINGS THIS WEEK, WHILE INTENSIFYING PRIVATE AND REGIONAL CONSULTATIONS I N EFFORT TO MOVE FORWARD ON NEGO- TIATION OF BASIC CONDITIONS, EXTREMISTS IN GROUP OF 77 REPORTEDLY WISH TO ABANDON CHAIRMAN'S PAPER AND RETURN TO ORIGINAL GROUP OF 77 POSITION, ALTHOUGH LDC LEADERSHIP APPEARS TO BE PRESSING FOR MORE MODERATE STAND. IN APRIL 17 WG MEETING, US ATTEMPTED TO GARNER SUPPORT FOR CONTINUING NEGOTIATION ON bASI S OF CHAIRMAN'S DRAFT BY ELABORATING RESERVATION OF AREAS IN DETAIL AND REFERRING TO CONCEPT AS POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO ARTICLE 9 (EXPLOITATION SYSTEM). IN GROUP OF 5 CON- SULTATIONS, US DEL EXPERIENCING SOME DIFFICULTY IN CONVINCING OTHER MEMBERS THAT WE HAVE REACHED STAGE FOR COMPROMISE. IF GROUP OF 77 CANNOT ACHIEVE MORE RAPID PROGRESS IN ITS REVIEW OF CHAIRMAN'S DRAFT AND IF GROUP OF 5, PARTICULARLY SOV DEL, FAILS TO SHOW FLEXI- BILITY OF NONCRITICAL ISSUES, IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO PUT ASIDE BASIC CONDITIONS IN WG AND PROCEED TO MACHINERY. WE WOULD ANTICIPATE, HOWEVER, CONTINUED PRIVATE NEGOTIA- TIONS WITH LAC LEADERSHIP ON THIS SU8 E T Approved For Release 00?2/A8//1 1 Cb4- D B}4SQ06R7f2000300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/7b Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT C O N F I D E N T I A L T 95 55 35 E I A8 02 PAGE 02 TOR1200320i APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAI ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED NC 4 05 34 3, COMMITEE II: AS IN PRIOR WEEK. SERIES OF PRIVATE NEGOTIATIONS ON CRITICAL ISSUES TOOK PLACE BEHIND THE SCENES. US CONTINUES TO COORDINATE CLOSELY WITH GROUP OF 5 . ALTHOUGH POSITIONS I N GROUP VARY SOMEWHAT DEPENDENT UPON SPECIFIC ISSUE INVOLVED, MOST SIGNIFICANT DEVELOP- MENT OF WEEK WAS AGREEMENT ON UK-FIJI SINGLE TEXT ON STRAITS WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY 14 OTHER STATES FROM ALL REGIONS, COMPLETE TEXT SENT SEPTEL. PARTLY FOR TACTICAL REASONS. UK AND FIJI HAVE BEEN INFORMED THAT SUBSTANCE OF TEXT IS UNACCEPTABLE TO US AND WE ARE HOPE- FUL SOVIETS WILL TAKE SAME VIEW, EMERGENCE OF THIS TEXT IN CHAIRMAN+S SINGLE TEXT SHOULD PROVIDE BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION, US CONTINUES TO CONSULT WITH UK. NORWAY AND VENEZUELA. AND.` TO LESSER EXTEND t WITH CANADA REGARDING DEFINING OUTER LIMIT OF CONTINENTAL MARGIN BEYOND 200 MILES AND FORMULA FOR REVENUE-SHARING, AUSTRALIA AND CANADA ARE TAKING RIGID POSITION IN OPPOSITION TO REVS NUE SHARING BEYOND 200 MILES, EVENSEN GROUP PRODUCED A SIXTH REVISION WHICH CON' TAINS ARTICLES ON ANADROMOUS AND HIGHLY-MIGRATORY SPECIES, EVENSEN GROUP HAS COMPLETED DISCUSSION OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE EXCEPT FOR CONTINENTAL SHELF REGIME AND HAS REFERRED THE WORK OF THE GROUP TO THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE III IT SEEMS LIKELY THAT THIS CAREFULLY NEGOTIATED TEXT WILL LARGELY FORM THE BASIS FOR ECONOMIC ZONE CHAPTER IN SINGLE PACKAGE TEXT, POSITION ON SALMON INCORPORATED IN TOTO IN EVENSEN TEXT AFTER CAREFUL PRE-NEGOTIATIONS WITH INTERESTED ,~ STATES, (USSR WANTS TO MAKE CHAGES BUT JAPAN AND PROBABLY DENMARK WILL FALL OFF IF ANY CHANGES.) OUR POSITION ON TUNE (HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES) HAS MUCH MORE OPPOSITION BUT NEVERTHELESS PROVISION IN TEXT REPRESENTS REASONABLE AND PROBABLY BEST ATTAINABLE COMPROMISE ON ISSUE. THIS TEXT. HOWEVER. NOT YET AGREED BY LATINS AND DISCUSSIONS CONTINUING, OPPO- SITION FROM LANDLOCKED AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVAN- TAGED STATES CONTINUES TO EVENSEN TEXT DESPITE CHANGES TO A C C O M M O D ~p~roTA A l a i 8 /~> 1 ~ Cp 2D 8 11111460300090008 F(I)RM 3020b 7.71 MFG. 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED- ____ ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT C O N F I D E N T I AL~ T 955535 EI A802 PAGE 03 TORS200320Z APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER TRAP ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE REFLECT SO ME FURTHER COMPROMISES FOR THIS GROUP. THE EVENSEN GROUP IS NOW NEGOTIATING THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN ISSUES, DEVELOPING COMPROMISE BETWEEN BROAD MARGIN STATES AND LANDLOCKED SHELF-LOCKED GROUP SEEMS TO BE TO GIVE COASTAL STATES JURISDICTION OVER MARGIN MINERALS WHERE MARGIN GOES BEYOND 200 MILES SUBJECT TO REASONABLE REVENUE SHARING BEGINNING AT 200 MILES AND REASONABLE AND PRECISE DEFINITIONS FOR OUTER BOUNDARY OF MARGIN, DISCUSSIONS ON REVENUE SHARING FORMULA BEGINNING, WE ARE SATISFIED IN GENERAL WITH CONSOLIDATED TEXTS ON BASELINES AND HIGH SEAS. THESE PROVISIONS WILL BE ANALYZED IN MORE DETAIL WHEN THE SECRETARIAT PRODUCES NEXT REVISION. PERU AND SPAIN ARE STIL ENGAGING I N DISRUPTIVE PROCEDURAL TACTICS, INSISTING, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT MAIN TRENDS PAPER B E REVISED TO FULLY REFLECT EVERY ASPECT OF THEIR POSITIONS, CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE II HAS STRONGLY RESISTED THESE PRESSURES, WITH US AND SOVIET SUPPORT. STAGE HAS AP PA RT EN TL Y BEEN REACHED WHERE INFORMATL GROUPS WILL CONSIDER ALL SUB-COMMITTEE II ITEMS ON LIST OF SUBJECTS AND ISSUES, DISCUSSIONS WERE HELD ON LANDLOCKED TRANSIT TO SEA AND ON INNOCENT PASSAGE, AND CONTINENTAL SHELF AND ISLANDS WILL BE CONSIDERED NEXT WEEK, SPAIN AND SEVERAL ARAB STATES STRONGLY PRESSED VIEW THAT INNOCENT PASSAGE APPLIED TO STRAITS OVERLAPPED BY THE TERRITORIAL SEA. IN GENERAL, WEEK WAS PRODUCTIVE IN NUMBER OF AREAS BUT PUBLIC IMPRESSION MIGHT BE MISLEADING AS THERE WAS LITTLE NEGOTIATING IN PUBLIC, IMPRESSION IS COMPOUNDED BY FACT IT IS DIFFICULT TO SHOW TANGIBLE RESULTS UNTIL SINGLE TEXT EMERGES FROM CHAIRMAN. 4, COMMITTEE II 11 (A) MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, METTERNICH INFORMAL NEGOTIATING GROUP MET TWICE THIS PAST WEEK, BUT EFFORTS WERE LARGELY FUTILE BECAUSE NO AFRICANS ST TE ND ED . DISCUSSIONS NEXT WEEK I N THIS INFORMAL FO UM WILL FOCUS ON RESEARCH ON CONTINENTAL SHELF. MEXICO AND IRELAND HAVE CIRCULATED INFORMAL DRAFT WHICH DISTINGUISHES BETWEEN F pp N g 5 0 3~}~~1~0'3b0090008-0 Approved For Releap eO 8I f D 4k#~g ? FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM By PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY C O N F I D E N T I A L T 955535 EI A802 PAGE 04-. TOR120032OZ APR 75 NC 40534 RELATED RESEARCH BY IMPOSING ADDITIONAL OBLIGATIONS ON R ES OU RC ES .R EL AT ED RESEARCH, THIS PROPOSAL PROVIDES THAT COASTAL STATE HAS RIGHT TO OBJECT TO RESEARCH IF OBLIGATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN FULFILLED. IT PROVIDES MEANS OF CONCILIATION. BUT NO BINDING DECISION. LEAVING POWER IN COASTAL STATE TO PREVENT RESEARCH, COASTAL STATE ALSO HAS RIGHT TO SUSPEND RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED IN THEIR ECONOMIC ZONE IF RESEARCH DOES NOT COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF CONVENTION, SIX OTHER LATIN COUNTRIES HAVE APPARENTLY EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MEXICO/IRISH DRAFT, BUT THUS FAR NO AFRICANS HAVE, GROUP OF 77 REPORTEDLY HAS COMPLETED REVISION ON L.12 ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, NIGERIAN DELEGATE, WHO CHAIRS GROUP OF 77 WORKING GROUP ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, HAS STATED MANY THINS IN L.I.2 ARE NEGOTIABLE. HE REFUSED TO CONSIDER TRANSFERRING PROVISIONS OF L,12 DEALING WITH INTER- NATIONAL AUTHORITY TO COMMITTEE I, STATING TERMS OF REFERENCE OF C.III INCLUDED ISSUE OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER. SOVIETS INDICATED IN BILATERAL DIS- CUSSIONS THAT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO PROVIDE MORE ASSISTANCE IN AREA OF TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT BUT REMAINED UNCOMMITTED ON WHETHER THEY WOULD BE WILLING T O CONTRIBUTE TO A SPECIALIZED MULTILATERAL FUND. REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THA ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITER STATE MESSAGE: ww Approved For Release 2802JOf2f : ?ItPfPP2~00P97RQ00300090008-0 I ORM 3020b 141 MFG. 2"16 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY___-.___PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT RF. FILE VR C O N F I D E N T I A L T 955534 EIA801 PAGE ft- TOR= 2003182 APR 75 R 191647 APR 75 FM USMISSION GENEVA TO R UE HC /S EC ST AT E WASHDC 2252 INFO RUEHDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1598 RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1467 BT C O N F I D E N T I A L SECTION 2 OF 2 GENEVA 27 60 FROM USDEL LOS USIA - PASS IPS AND IBS (B) POLLUTION, IN INFORMAL EVENING SESSIONS, GROUP OF 1 7 AND GROUP OF 5 MET T O DISCUSS FORTH AND FIFTH REVISIONS OF EVENSEN TEXT ON PRESERVATION OF MARINE ENVIRONMENT, DISCUSSION CENTERING ON ARTICLES X-X1I, POLLUTION FROM VESSELS (GENERAL AND FLAG AND COASTAL STATE PROVISIONS), IN GROUP OF 5. GENERAL AGREEMENT WAS ATTAINED THAT INTERNATIONAL RULES WOULD BE ESTABLISHED FOR PROSECUTION OF VESSEL SOURCE POLLUTION' AND THAT STATES SHALL ESTABLISH NATIONAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS "NO LESS STRINGENT THAN INTER- NATIONAL RULES AND STANDARDS." ON MOTION BY UNITED STATES IN BOTH GROUPS. MAJORITY OF PARTICIPANTS AGREED TO DELETE REFERENCE IN ARTICLE 12 (COASTAL STATE RIGHT TO ESTABLISH LAWS AND REGULATIONS IMPLE- MENTING AND CONFORMING TO INTERNATIONAL RULES AND STANDARDS WITH RIGHT TO PRESCRIBE RULES ADDITIONAL TO OR MORE STRINGENT THAN SAID INTERNATIONAL RULES AND STANDARDS) TO STRAITS REGIME. AGREEING TO HAVE SEPARATE ARTICLE AT END OF EVENSEN POLLUTION ARTICLES STATING "NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL AFFECT THE LEGAL REGIME OF STRAITS USED FOR INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION DEALT WITH BY CHAPTER ( ) OF THIS CONVENTION," IN ADDITION ON ARTICLE XII(2), REGARDING COASTAL STATE RIGHT OF STANDARD SETTING IN ECONOMIC ZONE. AGREEMENT WAS REACHED EITHER T O DELETE PARAGRAPH I N ENTIRETY O R TO RESTRICT SCOPE OF PARAGRAPH T O RIGHT OF COASTAL STATE 00 ESTABLISH LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR VESSEL SOURCE POLLUTION IMPLEMENTING AND CONFORMING T O INTER- NATIONAL RULES AND STANDARDS IN ARTICLE X. AND WITH RIGHTS O F ENFORCEMENT AS PROVIDED IN ARTICLE X I I I (E N F O R C E h To ~dr' ea1ssR2tO pl~B/2q Q t D-ODF%T1 6 7R000300090008-0 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THA ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIRITEI STATE MESSAGE NC 405 rUUM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BV__PER __ PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED_____ _APVAIcCE COPY ISi UED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT T 955534 EIA8OI C O N F I D E N T I A L PAGE G-2--02' TOR$ 2003182 APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAI ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITEC STATE MESSAGE NC 405 EFFECT OF INCLUSION OF ART. XII(2) IS TO REMOVE ANY DOUBT AS TO STANDARD SETTING IN ECONOMIC ZONE, UPON SATISFACTORY CONCLUSION OF ART, XIII PROVISIONS. PROPOSED LANGUAGE OF ART, XII(2) IS: COASTAL STATES MAY IN RESPECT OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE ESTABLISH LAWS AND REGULATIONS FOR THE PREVENTION, REDUCTION, AND CON- TROL OF POLLUTION FROM VESSELS, IMPLEMENTING AND CONFORMING TO INTERNATIONAL RULES AND STANDARDS REFERRED T O IN ARTICLE X I N THE EXERCISE OF THEIR JURISDICTION TO ENFORCE AS SPECIFIED IN ART. XIII.# (# FOOTNOTE: THE INCLUSION AND SCOPE OF THIS PROVISION DEPENDS ON THE EXTENT OF COASTAL STATE ENFORCEMENT POWERS IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE, CF, ARTICLE XII I. ) 51 DISPUTE SETTLEMENT. D S WORKING GROUP COMPLETED DISCUSSIONS ON REMAINING ITEMS IN L.7, ON ISSUE OF EXCEPTIONS, SEVERAL STATES QUESTIONED EXCEPTIONS FOR VESSELS ENTIELED TO SOVERIGN IMMUNITY AND FOR MILI- TARY ACTIVITIES, AFTER US EXPLANATION OF NEED FOR EXCEPTIONS, OPPOSITION SEEMED TO SOFTEN SOMEWHAT, ALTHOUGH ADDITIONAL CONSULTATIONS WITH NATO ALLIES WILL BE REQUIRED, ISSUE OF APPLICATION OF DS TO ECONOMIC ZONE CONTINUES TO BE PROBLEM AS A RESULT OF ARGENTINA, BRAFIL, CHILE, AND HONDURAS OPPOSITION. US STRONGLY INTERVENED TO INDICATE THAT US NEGOTIATIONS IN C-11 AND C-III WERE ON ASSUMPTION COMPULSORY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT APPLIES TO ECONOMIC ZONES, IN EFFORT TO PRESENT CHAIR WITH MEANS OF RESOLVING DEADLOCK, US PROPOSED THAT EACH FUNCTIONAL ISSUE IN ECONOMIC ZONE BE SEPARATELY ANALYZED AND THAT OVERALL DS STRUCTURE BE FORMED FOLLOWING SUCH ANALYSIS. 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FROM USDEL LOS Q~MM (yn~'(wj E,O, 11652; N/A TAGS; PLOS SUBJECT; L06; UNCLASSIFIED WEEKLY WRAP-UP FOR D/LOS ENDING SUMMARY; INFORMAL NE QTIATING GROUPS CONTINUED TO BE HALLMARK OF CONFERENCE WORK METHOD, STADY PROGRESS WAS MADE O N MANY SUBJECTS, PARTICULARLY ON LESS CON- TROVERSIAL ITEMS, END SUMMARY, 2, GENERAL COMMITTEE; ON 13 APRIL, AMERASINGHEo REVIEWING WORK METHOD AND PROGRESS OF CONFERENCE STATED HOPE THAT COMMITTEE I UNIFIED TEXT WOULD BE READY BY END SIXTH WEEK, BUT UNDER PRESENT METHODS OBTAINMENT OF UNIFIED TEXT IN COMMITTEE III AND II APPEARED DOUBTFUL, CONSEQUENTLY, HE INFORMALLY PRO- POSED COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN AND BUREAU PRODUCE UNIFIED TEXT, WITH ASSISTANCE FROM PRESIDENT, WITH POS- SIBILITY OF JOINT COMMITTEE II AND III MEETINGS WITH PRESIDENT PRESIDING, AMERASINGHE FURTHER PROPOSED POSSIBILITY OF ADJOURNING CONFERENCE MAY 4 FOLLOWED BY FOUR-WEEK SUMMER SESSION TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK, AMONG VARIOUS INTERVENTIONS, POLAND, USSR, AND TUNISIA SUPPORTED PREPARATION OF UNIFIED TEXTS BY COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN, IF NECESSARY AFTEM SESSION, AND CONTINUATION OF WORKIN3 GROUPS, U.S. SUPPORTED COM- PLETION OF TEXTS APPROVED ON COMMITTEE LEVEL, OPPOSED DRAFTING REPORT AT END OF CONFERENCE AS PROPOSED BY CHILE, SINGAPORE, WITH CONCURRENCE OF PRESIDENT, DE- FINED UNIFIED TEXT AS BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION, NUT A NEGOTIATED, COMPROMISE OR VOTING TEXT, PERU, FRG, FRANCE, AND TUNISIA OPPOSED SUMMER SESSION IN OPPOSITION TO BOLIVIA AND KUWAIT W-1O FAVORED IT, PRESIDENT ENDED M E L T I N G W I T H I N T E N T I O N T O CON 0/ T - ~Q b0~j X0300090008-0 Approved For Re eae~~ IJRALSE-LTNLY FUKM JULUb 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 JAuMININTERNALuEoJNLY PGVANCF.44r? f 15.S4.D/~Sb4TTED ~Y ---AT Z REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 18 PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE T 955209 EIA477 PAGE 02 NC 40327 TUR1191941ii APR 75 CHAIRMEN, 3? COMMITTEE I; WG OF C-I HAS HAD SOME DIFFICULTY THIS WEEK IN MOVING FORWARD WITH DISCUSSIONS ON CON- DITIONS OF EXPLOITATION, ALTHOUGH PACE OF PRIVATE CON- SULTATIONS HAS INTENSIFIED, MAJUR OBSTACLE TO PROGRESS APPEARS TO BE INA8ILITY OF GROUP OF 77 TO REACH COMMON POSITION UN VARIOUS ITEMS IN CHAIRMAN'S DRAFT OF BASIC CONDITIONS, WG AGREED APRIL 17 TO ABANDON PARAGRAPH- 8Y-PARAGRAPH APPROACH AND TU PERMIT INTERVENTIONS ON ALL POINTS OF PRINCIPLE, AVOIDING DETAILED CONSIDERA- TION OF PRECISE LANGJAuE IN DISCUSSION PAPER MAY ENABLE WG TO COMPLETE OI SCUSSI QN OF BASIC CONDITIONS WITHIN SEVERAL DAYS, AT WHICH TIME IT WILL PRESUMABLY TURN TO MACHINErtY ARTICLES, 4. COMMITTEE II; WORK CONTINUED TO HE CENTERED ABOUT MEETINGS OF INFORMAL CONSULTATIVE GROUPS DEALI G N WITH SPECIFIC ITEMS, HIGH SEAS; GROUP COMMENCED SECOND READ- ING OF ARTICLES BASED ON GENERALLY SATISFACTORY UNIFIED TEXT PREPARED BY BUREAJ DRAWN MAINLY FROM 1958 CONVENTION, UNIFIED TEXT ON BASELINES ALSO GENERALLY CONFORMS WITH 1958 CONVENTION, AND MAY NUT BE REOPENED, INNOCENT PASSAGE; CONSULTATIONS ARE OFF TO SLOW START DOMINATED BY EFFORTS TO INCLUDE CONSIDERATION OF STRAITS ALONG W I T H TERRITORIAL SEA I N GENERAL, WITH US SUPPORT, CHAIRMAN HAS STOOD FAST IN RESISTING THIS EFFORT, SINGLE TEXT ON CUNTIGUOJS LONE BEING PREPARED BY BUREAU, WITH CONTROVERSY OVER WHETHER CONTIGUOUS EONE WILL EXTEND BEYOND TWELVE MILES, TRANSIT TO SEA BY LANDLOCKED STATES; DEBATE HAS BEEN IN- CONCLUSIVE AND EMOTIUNA: AT TIMES, WITH PREDICTABLE POSITIONS BEING TAKEN 3Y BOTH SIDES, 5, COMMITTEE III; (A) MARINE POLLUTION: C-III WORK- ING GROUP COMPLETED ARTICLE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ARTICLE INITIALLY PREPARED by US, GREECE PRESENTED DRAFT ARTICLE (A/CONE, 52/C,3/L,27) UN PREVENTION OF POLLUTION FROM DUMPING AT SEA, WORKING GROUP COMMENCED CONTINUING DISCUSSION OF SHELF POLLUTION STANDARDS, DISCUSSION -ENTERED ON INCLUSION VEL NON OF DOUBLE STANDARD FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ON THEORY b-NUNCIATED BY BRAZIL AND SUPP T Y 41 Approved For Relea?t g (~ /; > fkR~j'k?tg-lt6~~k6(PO%bOO90008-0 FORM IU20b 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED----------_ USE A 1J M I N INTERNAL O N L Y ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED f_ ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT _ i STATE MESSAGE ACTION UNIT I 7 T 955209 E I A 4 7 7 PAGE 03-03 NC 40327 TuRS191941t APR 75 THAT AS CONTINENTAL SHE.F IS CUNTINUATIUN OF CONTINENTAL LAND MASS, LAND-BASED DOUBLE STANDARDS SHOULD ALSO APPLY TO SHELF REGIME, (8) MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEANCHS INFORMAL AND INCON- CLUSIVE NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUED ON ITbM RELATING TO RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY, FORMAL MEETING OF C-III CENTERED ON SOVIET PROPOSAL, L.26, FAVORABLE COMMENTS WERE MADE by IRELAND AND BELGIUM WHILE ADVERSE COMMENTS WERE MADE BY CHILE, CHINA, BRAZIL, YUGOSLAVIA, ALBANIA, PAKISTAN, 6, DISPUTE SETTLEMENTS WORKING GROUP COMPLETED DISCUSSIONS UN REMAININ3 ITEMS IN L171 REVISED DRAFT WAS BRIEFLY REVIEWED UY GROUP AT FRIDAY MEETING, FOCUS NEXT WEEK WILL BE ON CONCILIATION, ARBITRATION, AND LOS TRIBUNAL ANNEXES TU CDS CHAPTER, TEXT POUCHED DEPT,DALE Approved For ReJe ~OQWT % A L TAU DP$~1~,0697R000300090008-0 7-71 MFG. 3/74 CABLE SEC DISSEM BV PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED -ADVANCE COPYr IS ACTION UNIT I 25X1_ T 95 1b~ C U N F I 0 E N T I A L TURD 1919091 APR 75 H 1916422 APR 75 FM U S MISSION GENEVA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2249 8T C 0 N F I U E N T I A L GENEVA 2750 FROM USDEL LOS E,0. 11652; UD5 ~d~ TAGS1 PLJS SUt3JECT: LUS STRAITS CONSULTATION WITH JORDAN It AMBASSADOR MOORE AND DEL REPS FRENCH AND MORRIS MET 14 APRIL WITH AMBASSADOR SAID OF JORDAN FUR EXTENDED DISCUSSION OF STRAITS ISSUE, MOURE PRESENTED U 5 STRA P T , , I S OSITION EM- PHASI4ING ATTAINMENT OF UNIMPEDED TRANSIT IN STRAITS CONNECT- ING HIGH SEAS TO HIGH SEAS AS ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF U.S, POSITION, AMBASSADOR SARI STATED THAT ARAB GROUP CONTINUED DIVIDED ON ISSUE WITH MAJORITY I ANINu TOWARD INNOCENT PASSAGE REGIME AT LEAST FOR ARAB REPEAT AHAB STRAITS, IRAQ AND SOME GULF STATES CONTINUED TO FAVOR UNIMPEDED TRANSIT, IN AMBASSADOR SADI'S OPINION ISSUE W1~L HtQUIRE RLSOLUTION AT HIGH MINIS- TERIAL LEVEL, EGYPT IS KEY TO INFLUENCING THAT DECISION, AND JORDAN WOULD AMIDE dY THE RESULT, 2, AMBASSADOR MOORE INDICATED THAT IT MIGHT BE POSSIBLE TO DRAFT LANGUAGE WHICH +O JLD APPLY AN UNIMPEDED TRANSIT REGIME TO STRAITS CONNECTING HIGH SEAS TO HIGH SEAS, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME PHCSERVING THE EXISTING INNOCENT PASSAGE REGIME WHILE NOT PREJUDICING EXISTING INTERPRETATIONS CONCERNING LEGAL REGIMES IN PARTICJLAH STRAITS IN THIS CATEGORY IN STRAITS CONNECTING HIGH SEAS, 3, AMBASSADOR SADI NOTED THAT THE EXCEPTION DESCRIBED IN PARAGRAPH 2 ABOVE WOJLD APPLY TO TIRAN, HOWEVER, HE FELT THAT UNLESS ALL ARAB STRAITS WERE EXCEPTED FROM AN UNIMPEDED PASSAGE REGI"1E THE ULTIMATE ARAB GROUP DECISION WOULD FAVOW INNOCENT ?ASSAGt, HE AGAIN RECOMMENDED U.S, MAKE STRUNG EFFORT TO INFLUENCE EGYPT WHICH HAS STRONG VOICE IN ARAB GROUP AND MOST TECHNICALLY QUALI- FIED DELEGATION, AMBASSADOR MOORE REITERATED OUR INTEREST IN WORKING OUT STRAITS PROBLEM WITH ARAB STATES BEFORE THEIR POSITION SOLIDIFIED, SINCE USG COULD NUT ACCEPT A R_SJLT LESS FAVORABLE THAN THE POSITION HE HAD OUTLIN=D Approved For RefELas& 290~/01/2D1 : ECI~-RpP?2S0i697R000300090008-0 A/h~pC1~~K1Jroved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO06~97R000300090008-0 PER TOTAL COPIFC q -77- J .,, ,.. BY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 C u N F I D E N T I A L _. ADVANCE COPY iSSUED/SLOTTEE) ACTION UNIT T T 955167 EIA457 STATE MESSAGE PAGE 02?O2 NC 40312 TOR;1919091 APR 75 4. IN RESPONSE TO A JJESTIUN FROM DELEGATION REP FRENCH, SARI INUICATED THAT ~IHI~E HE HAD NOT HEARD ARGUMENT AD- VANCED IN GENEVA THAT SUBMERGED TRANSIT WOULD BECOME UNNECESSARY ONCE TRIDENT HECAME OPERATIONAL, THIS ARGUMENT HAD BEEN ADVANCED EFFECTIVELY IN ARAB LEAGUE CONSIDERATION OF THE ISSUE, AMBASSADOR MOORE AND DEL REP MORRIS RE5PO,NUEu, POINTING OUT THE FALLACIES INHERENT IN THIS ARGJMENNT INCLUDING USG REQUIREMENT TO BALANCE SOVIET PRESENCE IN MEDITERRANEAN. IN RESPONSE TO AMBASSADOR SAUIIS INQUIRY REGARDING POSSIBILITY OF ACCIDENTS RESULTING FROM SUBMERGED TRANSIT IN NARROW STRAITS LIKE bAb EL MANDEB, DEL REP MORRIS POINTED TO SAFETY RECORD UNDER EXISTING PRACTICES AND NOTED SONAR AND OTHER NAVIGATION CAPABILITIES OF SUBMARINES, 5. AS MEETING CLOSED AMBAj6ADUR SADI REPEATED DE- SIRABILITY OF APPROACH TO EGYPTIANS, SUGGESTED AN APPROACH TO ALL ARAB ;,AfITALS, AND NOTED THAT AN ARAB STATES' MEETING APRIL 41 MIGHT TAKE UP THIS ISSUE. 6, SEPARATE REPORTING CABLE ON SUBSEGIUENT DISCUSSION THIS ISSUE WITH EGYPT FOLLO S.DALE REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED Approved For RelecseU2QQ2 08j21 CEIA5fR[ P8I2SR0E97R000300090008-0 FORM 3U2Uh '"" 7-71.; --G. 3/7? Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY-PER TOTAL COPIES _ApVANCE COPY_ISS ACTION UNIT STA T 955207 2 RUN BY AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY STATE MESSAGE R 191640 FM U S M I S S I U N GENEVA ~ To SECSTATE WASHDC 2247 L l ~ ~a -T via i T~ V~~ Q.~?~ HT ~s UNCLAS SECTION JAOF 2 GENEVA 2757 E, O. 11652; N/A TAGS; PLOS SUBJECT; LOS; SINGLE. TEXT STRAITS ARTICLES (26 w.-4'v FOLLOWING IS SINGLE TEXT STRAITS ARTI EMERG LE C S WHICH ED FROM UK =F I/CONSULTATIONS, EXT IS SUPPORTED BY A D I''L 1 A , TO .'1 ?I1A?7\1 V,9 f. .^..,1?V" r`r - ii Iil' ,.---? A.. .., r. NUTA, ITA,IC`Y; FIJii KENYAVLEBANON AN U PASSAGE OF STRAITS USED FOR INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION ARTICLE I 1. THIS ARTICLE APPLIES TO ANY STRAIT (WHICH TERM IN- CLUDES ANY NATURALLY-FORMED STRETCH OF WATER WHATEVER ITS GEOGRAPHICAL NAME) WHICH; (A) IS USED FOR INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION, AND (B) CONNECTS TWO PARTS OF THE HIGH SEAS,* (# FOOTNOTE; IT IS THE INTENTION TO REFER HERE AND PASSIM TO ALL AREAS BEYOND THE TERRITORIAL SEA. THE PRECISE TERMI- NOLOGY SHOULD CONFIRM TO THAT USED IN OTHER TEXTS ELABORATED BY COMMITTEE I I. ) 2, IN STRAITS TO WHICH THIS ARTICLE APPLIES, ALL SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT ENJOY THE RIGHT OF TRANSIT PASSAGE, WHICH SHALL NOT BE IMPEDED, 3, TRANSIT PASSAGE IS THE EXERCISE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER OF THE FREEDOM OF NAVIGATION AND OVERFLIGHT SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONTINUOUS AND EXPEDITIOUS TRANSIT OF THE 6TRAIT BETWEEN ONE PART OF THE HIGH SEAS AND ANOTHER PART OF THE HIGH SEAS OR BETWEEN THE HIGH SEAS AND A STATE BORDERING THE STRAIT, 4, TRANSIT PASSAGE SHALL APPLY IN A STRAIT ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT; (A) A HIGH SEAS ROUTE OF' SIMILAR CONVENIENCE DOES NOT EXIST THROUGH THE STRAIT; OR (B) IF THE STRAIT IS FORMED BY AN ISLAND OF THE COASTAL STATE, A HIGH SEAS ROUTE OF SIMILAR CON- VENIENCE DOES NOT FXI T SEA g9& roved or eleas' ?O1FtT0A. App >q E R k4~997R000300090008-0 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 16 PROHIBITED FORM 3020b 7.71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 ~,n ova oc.. .,. - AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE GOP . ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT z REPRODUCTION NY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 15 PRgHISITED STATE MESSAGE T 955207 EIA476 PAGE 02 NC 40326 TUR11919404 APR 75 5, ANY ACTIVITY WHICH IS SNOT AN EXERCISE OF THE RIGHT OF TRANSIT PASSAGE THROJGH A STRAIT REMAINS SUBJECT TO THE OTHER APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THIS CONVENTION. ARTICLE 2 1, SHIPS AND AIRCRAFT, WHILE EXERCISING THE RIGHT OF TRANSIT PASSAGE SHALL$ (A) PROCEDD WITHOUT DELAY THROUGH THE STRAIT; (B) REFRAIN FROM ANY ACTIVITIES OTHER THAN THOSE INCIDENT TO THEIR NORMAL MOUES OF CONTINUOUS AND EXPEDITIOUS TRANSIT UNLESS RENDERED NECESSARY BY FORCE MAJEURE OR BY DISTRESS; (C) REFRAIN FROM ANY THREAT OR USE OF FORCE IN VIOLATION OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AGAINST THE TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY OR POLITICAL INDEPENDENCE OF AN ADJACENT STRAITS STATE; (D) COMPLY WITH OTHER RELEVANT PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER, 2, SHIPS IN TRANSIT SHALL; (A) COMPLY WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED INTERNATIONAL REGU- LATIONS, PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES FUR SAFETY AT SEA, INCLUDING THE INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS FOR PREVEN- TING COLLISIONS AT SEA; (8) COMPLY WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED INTERNATIONAL REGU- LATIONS, PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES FOR THE PREVEN- TION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, 3, AIRCRAFT IN TRANSIT SHALL; (A) OBSERVE RULES OF THE AIR E5TA6LISHED BY THE INTER- NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANIiATION UNDER THE CHICAGO CONVENTION AS THEY APPLY TO CIVIL AIRCRAFT) STATE AIRCRAFT WILL NORMALLY COMPLY WITH SUCH SAFETY MEASURES AND WILL AT ALL TIMES OPERATE WITH DUE REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF NAVIJATIUN) (B) AT ALL TIMES MONITOR THE RADIO FREQUENCY ASSIGNED BY THE APPROPRIATE INTERNATIONALLY DESIGNATED AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUTHORITY UR THE APPROPRIATE INTER- NATIONAL DISTRESS RADIO FREQUENCY, ARTICLE 3 1 TM CONFORMITY WITH THIS CHAPTER, A STRAITS STATE MAY SEPARATION SCHEMES DESIGNATE SEALANES AND PRESCRIBE TRAFFIC M4-600j~t_$0000&090008-0 F U R N A V I G A TAA*o4~6 FT~r~Re7l;a?skJ _L'L FORM 30201, 7-74 V FG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY_ PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT T 955207 EIA476 ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY PAGE 03-0 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE NC 40326 TURi1919.404 APR 75 THE SAFE PASSAGE OF SHIPS, 2, A STRAITS STATE MAY, WHIN CIRCUMSTANCES REQUIRE AND AFTER GIVING DUE PUBLICITY TO ITS DECISION, SUBSTITUTE OTHER SEA LANES OR TRAFFIC SEPARATION SCHEMES FOR ANY PREVIOUSLY DESIGNATED OR PRESCRIBED BY IT, 3, SUCH SEALANES OR TRAFFIC SEPARATION SCHEMES SHALL CONFORM WITH GENERALLY ACCEPTED INTtRNATIQINAL REGULATIONS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 2, 4, BEFORE DESIGNATING SEALANES OR PRESCRIBING TRAFFIC SEPARA- TION SCHEMES, A STRAITS STATE SHALL REFER PROPOSALS TO THE COMPETENT INTERNATIONAL ORuANIUATION WITH A VIEW TO THEIR ADOPTION, THE ORaANI~ATION MAY ADOPT ONLY SUCH SEALANES AND SEPARATION SCHEMES AS MAY bE AGREED WITH THE STRAITS STATE, AFTER WHICH THE STRAITS STATE MAY DESIGNATE OR PRESCRIBE THEM, 5, IN RESPECT OF A STRAIT WHERE SEALANES OR SUCH SCHEMES ARE PROPOSED THROUGH THE WATERS OF TWO OR MORE STRAITS STATES, THE STATES CONCERNED SHALL COOPERATE IN FORMULA- TING PROPOSALS IN CONSU.TATION WITH THE ORGANIZATION, 6, THE STRAITS STATE SMALL CLEARLY INDICATE ALLSEALANES AND SEPARATION SCHEMES DESIGNATED OR PRESCRIBED BY IT ON CHARTS TO WHICH DUE PUBLICITY SHALL BE GIVEN, 7, SHIPS IN TRANSIT SHALL RESPECT APPLICABLE SEALANES AND SEPARATION SCHEMES EST, LISHED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS ARTICLE, Approved For Relea!~eli 3f fFT 02/01E:AIAAtRD S E 82SU N 16. 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Jv4U) 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM By PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED -A_jpVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE T 955206 EIA475 TUR1191939 2 APR 75 NC 40328 R 1916401 APR 75 FM USM ISSI ON GENEVA TO SECSTATE WASHOC 2248 BT UNCLAS SECTION 2 OF 2 GENEVA 2757 ARTICLE 4 1, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER, THE STRAITS STATE MAY MAKE LAWS AND REGULATIONS RELATING TO TRANSIT PASSAGE THROUGH STRAITS, WHICH LAWS AND REGULATIONS MAY BE IN RESPECT OF ALL OR ANY OF THE FULLOWINGs (A) THE SAFETY OF NAVIGATION AND THE REGULATION OF MARINE TRAFFIC AS PROVIDED FOR IN ARTICLE 3; (B) THE PREVENTION OF POLLUTION, GIVING EFFECT TO APPLI- CABLE INTERNATIONAL REGULATIONS REGARDING THE DISCHARGE OF OIL, OI~.Y WASTES AND OTHER NOXIOUS SUBSTANCES IN THE STRAIT) (C) THE PREVENTION OF FISHING, INCLUDING THE STOWAGE OF FISHING GEAR) (D) THE TAKING ON BO4RD OR PUTTING OVERBOARD OF ANY COMMODITY, CURRENCY OR PERSON IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE CUSTOMS, FISCAL. IMMIGRATION OR SANITARY REGULA- TIONS OF THE STRAITS STATE. 2. SUCH LAWS AND REGULATIONS SHALL NOT DISCRIMINATE IN FORM OR FACT AMONG FOREIGN SHIPS. NOR IN THEIR APPLICATION HAVE THE PRACTICAL EFFECT OF DENYING, LIMITING OR IMPAIRING THE RIGHT OF TRANSIT PASSAGE A6 DEFINED IN THIS CHAPTER. ARTICLE 5 USER STATES AND STRAITS STATES SHOULD BY AGREEMENT COOPERATE IN THE ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE IN A STRAIT OF NECESSARY NAVIGATION AND SAFETY AIDS OR OTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN AID OF INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION OR FOR THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF POLLUTION FROM SHIPS, ARTICLE 6 A STRAITS STATE SHALL NUT HAMPER TRANSIT PASSAGE AND SHALL GIVE APPROPRIATE PUBLICITY TO ANY DANGER TO NAVIGATION OR OVERFLIGHT WITHIN OR OVER THE STRAIT OF WHICH IT HAS KNOW- LEDGE, THERE SHALL BE NO SUSPENSION OF TRANSIT PASSAGE. ARTICLE 7 11 IN STRAITS USED FOR INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION BETWEEN ONE PART-OF T ,H tpp r~~ d ?,e'~e e'~?~"~~8"T, T "N A LU PL4~~9 7P( 00 00 60008-0 1-unM . utub 7-71.MFG, 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM TOTAL COPIES RUN BY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN LjM I N INTERNAL USE ONLY 1 ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBIT90 PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED` -APVANC~;_CQPV ISS ED/SLOTTED By AT Z ACTION UNIT I RF. FILE . VR N F ACTION # ----- T 9a5206 E I A 4 7 5 PAGE TORIJ919394 APR 75 STATE MESSAGE ` NC 40320 OTHER THAN THOSE STRAITS IN WHICH THE REGIME OF TRANSIT PASSAGE APPLIES IN ACCORDAI E WITH ARTICLE It OR BETWEEN ONE PART OF THE HIGH SEAS AND THE TERRITORIAL SEA OF A FOREIGN STATE, THE REGIME OF INNOCENT PASSAGE IN ACCOR- DANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS uF PART III OF CHAPTER TWO SHALL APPLY, SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE, 2, THERE SHALL BE NO SJSPENSION OF THE INNOCENT PASSAGE OF FOREIGN SHIPS THROUGH SJCH STRAITS, 3, THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 3 OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL APPLY IN SUCH STRAITS, ARTICLE 8 NOTHING IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL AFFECT ANY AREAS OF HIGH SEAS WITHIN A STRAIT, ARTICLE 9 1, THE REGIMES OF PASSAGE THROUGH STRAITS USED FOR INTER- NATIONAL NAVIGATION SET OUT IN THIS CHAPTER SHALL NOT IN OTHER RESPECTS AFFECT T-IE STATUS OF WATERS FORMING SUCH STRAITS (NOR OF THE SEABED, SUOSOIL AND SUPERJACENT AIR- SPACE THEREOF) AS PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN THIS CONVENTION, 2, THE SOVEREIGNTY OR JURISDICTION OF THE STRAITS STATE SHALL BE EXERCISED SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER AND OTHER RULES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, ARTICLE 10 THE PROVISIONS OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL NOT AFFECT THE LEGAL REGIME IN STRAITS IN WHICH PASSAGE IS REGULATED IN WHOLE OR IN PART BY LONG-STANDING 11NTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS IN FORCE SPECIFICALLY RELATING To SuCH STRAITS, ARTICLE 11 IN THIS CHAPTER, "STRAITS STATE" MEANS ANY STATE BOR- DERING A STRAIT TO WHICH THE CHARTER APPLIES. ARTICLE 12 ANY OISPUTE CONCERNING THE INTERPRETATION OR APPLICATION OF THIS CHAPTER SHALL 3E SETTLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER ( ) OF THIS CONVENTION. DALE Approved For Release' s/0h 1T1~ ASR[ 1S~db~7R000300090008-0 FUI(M SULOb 7-71 MFG. 3/74 praved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BYD __-pER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY ADVANCE COPY IS ACTION UNIT T 955215' ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY TOR1191947f APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING ORRICE is PROHIBITED H 1916051 APR 75 ~~ J a.~... 1 FM USMISSION GENEVA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHOC 2245 a+"I+?~v-. to t--' INFO RUEHDT/USMISSION USUN NEW YORK 1594 RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1464 HT UNCLAS SECTION 1NVF'2 GENEVA 2756 dwnc E, 0, 116521 N/A 0 b"OIC' TAGS; PLOS - -SUBJECT: LOS) PLENARY SE53IUN 18 APRIL USIA FOR IPS AND 185 SUMMARY: LOS CONF, PRES, AMERASINGHE WON WIDESPREAD SUPPORT FOR HIS PROPOSAL TO HAVE EACH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN PRODUCE SINGLE, UNIFIED, NEGOTIATING TEXT BEFORE END OF CURRENT SESSION, TEXTS WOULD BE USED TO FOCUS NEGOTIATIONS, ALLOW STUDY BY GOVERNMENTS NOW ANU DURING INTERRSESSION, AND EXPEDITE NEGOTIATIONS AT NEXT SESSION TENTATIVELY PLANNED FOR EARLY 1976 IN ASIA OR AFRICA, US GAVE STATEMENT SUP. PORTING PROPOSAL TO CREATE UNIFIED TEXT, END SUMMARY, 1, LOS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT (AMERASINGHE) ADDRESSED PI EARLY S SSTnnl n S ^ 8 I Vut""r-IVur Al L;OMPLLTION F FIVE WEEK? OF WORK, (VERBATIM TEXT SENT SEPTEL,) HIS APPRAISei INDICATE4 RE ATIVE SATISFACTION WITH PROGRESS IN COMMITTEES I (DEEP SEABEDS) AND (POL~U Iv I IC RESEARCH) N F MOVEMENT NCOMMITTEElit AMERASINGHE FORMALLY PRO- POSED THAT EACH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN 8E CHARGED WITH THE RESPONSIBILITY OF DRAFTING A SINGLE, UNIFIED, AMENDABLE, NEGOTIATING TEXT FOR USE BY EACH FULL COMMITTEE IN FOCUSING ITS OURK, HE FURTHER INDICATED THAT HIS EARLIER IDEA THAT THE CONF SHOULD CONSIDER RECONVENING ITSELF. FOR A FUUR WEEK SESSION THIS SUMMER MET WIDESPREAD INFORMAL RESISTANCE SO HE WOULD NOT FORMALLY PROPOSE IT, HOWEVER, HE U,RUED THE CONE T-0- CONSIDER EA F NG NEXT SE S N WI TH IN FIRST N HS 0 97 A REQUEST N GROUPS TO SSUDY DUESTION O VENU/ (COMMEN BOTH SCHEDUL AND VENUE OF N "C~" ~S' ION WILL HE DECIDED LATE IN THIS SESSION, BUT A D D I T I O N A L L Y A M E B A SE, N` = C ' ~I Lj%V A P8 0?8 000300090008-0 Approve or e1ea r k'RAL USE ONLY RE FOI4M 3U2Uh 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY ,,A-WANCFcOPY IS ACTION UNIT RF. FILE . VR , ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLYI REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 18 PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE _T4 5 T 955215 EIA483 PAGE 02 NC 40331 TUR11919474 APR 75 INTER-SESSIONAL CONSULTATIONS,) 2, APPROXIMATELY 45 STATES SPOKE UN THE AGENDA ISSUES; THE PRESIDENT'S APPRAISAL OF WORK AND HIS PROPOSAL FOR CREATING UNIFIED TEXTS, AT CONCLUSION OF DEBATE AMERASINGHE RULED THAT HIS PROPOSAL HAD GENERAL ACCEPTANCE AND EACH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN WAS THEREFORE TOEUJIOiNSIDERED AS A NEGOTIATED OR VOTING TEXT, EACH CHAIRMAN WOULD TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR DECIDING THE SUBSTANCE OF TEXT AND WHO AND WHEN HE WOULD CONSULT WHEN DRAFTING IT, AMERASINGHE REQUESTED TEXTS BE PREPARED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE BUT CERTAINLY BEFORE ADJOURNMENT OF THIS SESSION, COMMITTEES ARE TO CON- TINUE WORK AS BEFORE AND MEMBERS WERE REQUESTED NOT TO INTERFERE WITH THE CHAIRMEN'S FREEDOM OF ACTION, 3, DEBATE STATEMENTS, (CuMMENT; FOR CONVENIENCE THIS SECTION IS ORGANIZED INTO FIVE SECTIONI (A) US STATEMENT; (B) SUPPORT FUR PROPOSAL OF CREATING UNIFIED TEXT; (C) NATJRE OF UNIFIED TEXT; (D) MORA- TORIUM ISSUE; AND (E) MISCELLANEOUS), (A) US STATEMENT t AMB, STEVENSON SAID HE SHARED THE PRESIDENT'S CONCERN OVaR RATE OF PROGRESS AND WHETHER WORKING METHODS ARE SATISFACTORY, HE NOTED SUCCESS OF CARACAS SESSION IN FORMULATING OUTLINES OF A GENERAL AGREEMENT BUT ADDED IT WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH FOR THIS SESSION TO MERELY FORTIFY THOSE OUTLINES AND RECONSIDER PROPOSALS, STEVENSON REPLIED TO THOSE DELEGATIONS WHO STATED THAT INSTEAD OF BENDING TO PRESSURE OF LEGISLATURES AND PUBLIC OPINION THE COMPLEXITY AND IMPORTANCE OF THE TASK SHOULD BE EXPLAINED BY DELEGATIONS? HE SAID HE AGREED THAT IT WAS CRITICAL TO STRIVE FUR UNDERSTANDING AND PATIENCE BUT ADDED THAT SUCH EFFORTS WERE UNCONVINCING UNLESS WE COULD INDICATE PKUURESS TOWARD ACHIEVING A TREATY WITHIN A REASONABLE TIME FkAME, AMB, STEVENSON NOTED THAT CONF, BY AVOIDING GENERAL DEBATE AND FORMAL SESSIONS MAD BEEN ABLE TO WORK ON TEXTS AND ATTEMPT NEGOTIATIONS, TO HtFLECT THIS PROGRESS AND SUSTAIN MOMENTUM IT IS ESSENTIAL. THAT EACH COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN, ON HIS OWN RESPONSIBILITY, PRODUCE A SINGLE TEXT WITH NU ALTERNATIVES OR VARIATIONS, HE URGED T H A T T H E C AOP'ALI~ ~dIkeTXsJ 21 6 'l>~/1N 8 t~kI A ~'u S9E 06%L ~6bbI(~90008-0 FORM 30701, 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY ADVANCE COPY ISSUEDLSLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT T I STATE MESSAGE T 955215 EIA483 PAGE lo3-0 TUR1191947i APR 75 WORK DONE By SMALL GROJPS AND bE PRODUCED AS SOON AS POSSI6LE, THEN THE CONF COULD BE(;IN PROCESS OF ATTEMPTING TO REACH CONSENSUS, AMB, STEVENSON CONCLUDED UY NOTING US WILLINGNESS TO NEGOTIATE IN GENEVAI A SOLUTION TO LOS PROBLEMS IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ALL MANKIND, HE ADDED THAT IN MANY WAYS THE CONF WAS A TEST OF WHETHER THE MULTILATERAL LAW AK M ING PROCESS CAN WORK, (B) SUPPORT FOR PROPOSAL (LF CREATING UNIFIED TEXT; IN ADDITION TOVSUPPORT FOR AMERASINGHEIS NC 40331 ERE WAS VE TR NG SUPPORT FR X VB UELA'o `-(:j EEC , AUSTKA IN H BOTH CASTAN DA (M XIC ) AND 3 OPUULOS (-GREECE) STATED CATEGORICALLY TH T WITHOUT SUCH A TEXT THE CONF WAS DOOMED TO FAILU t, THE VAST MAJORITY OF OTHER SPEAKERS, INCLUDING IS GAVE THEIR SUPPORT BUT WITH VARYING DEGREES OF ~UALIFICATION, EXPRESSING SERIOUS DOUBTS BUT NUT OPPOSING, ERE CHINA$ PE ECUAQn ~'TWYr TAB N -ANAL AND FRANC Pk ARGU=0-771AT THE E SINGLE TEXT WOULD B I? CALLYBEADOp OF A DECISION WITHOUT HAVING CONF DELEGATES1 PARTICIPATION AND WOULD IMMIATELY BE AMENDED TO REFLECT ALL TREiNUS, FRANC SAID THE EXISTING, CLASSICAL PROCEDURE OF LISTENING, EXPLAINING AND WORKING TOWARD REDUCING ALTERNATIVES IS SLOW BUT DEMOCRATIC AND LEGAL, IT SHOULD NOT BE ABANDONED BECAUSE IT COULD NOT PRUDUCL- GREAT PROGRESS IN ONE COMMITTEE FACED WITH ISSUES OF ENORMOUS COMPLEXITY, FURTHER, (AND AS SOME OTHERS POINTED OUT AS WELL), THERE WERE STILL ISSUES THAT HAD NUT SEEN ADEQUATELY EXAMINED BY COMMITTEE SUB?6ODIES, REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 16 PROHIBITED Approved For Rele s 002(21..: CIA-RDP82S00697R000300090008-0 li~1 IN tWNAL USE ONLY FORM JOZOb 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED _ ADVANCE COPYr ISSUED/SLOTTED __ ACTION UNIT I TOTAL COPIES RUN BY AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY] T 955213 EIA481 PAGE TUR1191946'i APR 75 H 1916054 APR 75 FM USMISSION GENEVA TO RUEHC,SECSTATE WASHLC 2246 INFO RUEHDT/USMISSION USUN igEW YORK 1595 kUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1465 BT UNCLAS SECTION 2 OF 2 GENEVA 2756 USIA FOR IPS AND IBS (C) NATURE OF UNIFIED T ;;XT: MANY DELEGATIONS REFERRED TO THE NECESSITY THAT THE UNIFIED TEXT ADE- QUATELY REFLECT THE TREND THEY THEMSELVES SUPPORTED - LANDLOCKED, DEVELOPING, ETC, MEXICO' CLEARLY POINTED OUT THAT IT WOULD BE IMPOSOIBLk SUCH A TEXT TO REFLECT ALL POINTS OF VIEW, S S,'CUBA`A SPAIN URUED THAT THE TEXT INCLUDE ALTERNATIVES OR VARIATIONS IN AREAS KNOWN TO HAVE WIDELY DIFFERING TRENDS, CFa~-,IVAI AND SOME,RICAN S' ES, (IN PARTICULAR TANZANIA-AND TUNISIA'S KED D , CHAIRMAN OF GROUP OF 771 ASI ZED T NY LOS CONVENTION MUST CLEARLY TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE INTERESTS AND NEEDS OF THE LDCS, THEREFORE, ANY SINGLE TEXT, THEY SAID, MUST ADEQUATELY REFLECT THE POSITIONS OF THIS MAJORITY, SOME DELEGATIONS ARGUED THAT THE SINGLE TEXT SHOULD BE GIVEN NO PRIORITY OVER ANY OTHER EXISTING TEXTS, AND WORKING GROUPS SHOULD CONTINUE THEIR CONSULTATION TOWARDS THEIR OBJECTIVES, INSTATED THAT THE TEXT uE CONSIDERED AS A TOOL AND NOT AS A MEASURE OF THE WORK OF THE CONF, (0) MORATORIUM ISSUE; THERE WERE OCCASIONAL REFER- ENCES DURING DEBATE TO THE NECESSITY OF WORKING WITHOUT THE PRESSURE OF UNIL4'T`_RAL ACTION WHICH "SOME STATES THREATEN," IRE D CATTY t;N COSTELLO) OPENED DEBATE WITH A STATEMENT IN WHICH Ht SAID THE CUNF SHOULD CON- SIDER BROADENING THE SCOPE OF UNGA RES 2574 (XXIV) (MORATORIUM RES) SO PARTICIPATING STATES SHOULD NOT TAKE UNILATERAL ACTION IN MATTERS WITHIN THE CONF MANDATE, OTHERS, INC UDING V Nc E A 'C OA 'A 5 `', A ANU--T-UNISI~REFERRED TO E H TH T "T EATS'li-I INDICATED THAT UNILATERAL ACTION WOULD ESE REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IB PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE CONS D RED AS AA VUIQQ ATTON OF NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH, AND S U G G E S T pprbved For tef~js .6J~E E -A bP~S ~ 2100~3t~90008-0 A~# r-_ -Zut) 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY.. PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE DOPYT ISSU ED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT ACTION # T 955213 EIA481 ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY PAGE 0 -0 TORI1919464 APR 75 TO PRECEED WITHOUT PRESSURE, RC"ACKNOWLEDGED THIS ISSUE WAS UNDER ACTIVE CONSIDERATION BY GROUP OF 77, (E) MISCELLANEOUSi A.-?' 1, SIG REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 4033$' BRA' TNI]QIa:" NORWAY~: AND KENYA U E GROUP ONLY SOVS` GAVE STATEN , 2, JAMMAA j A, ATTEMPED TO RUT A RECENT CIRCULAR LETTER FROM MAT CONCERNING PROPOSED SITE FUR THE INTERNATIO,DAL AUTHORITY BUT WAS RULED OUT OF ORDER, AL., ,.A-4S'VITRIOLIC AND NEAR IRRATIONAL ATTACK ON SUV'AND USUPERPOWER HEGEMONY WAS ALSO RULED OUT SUER, U,S; REPRESE'VTATIVE VACATED THE CHAIR, 3, p.L-'STATEMENT WAS BLATANT SELF ASSERTION AS LOG CHAMPION AND INCLUDED MUDERATE-HEAVY CONDEM- NATION OF SUPERPOWER ASJSE OF EXISTING FREEDOM OF SEAS, 4, MOST OF LA GROUP SPOKE AND INCLUDED FLORID PRAISE OF COMMITTEE II CHAIRMAN POHL WHOSE LEADER- SHIP WAS UNDER IMPLIED ATTACK FUR LACK OF PROGRESS THIS SESSION, 5, ACCORDING TO ITS CHAIRMAN (KEDADI) THE GROUP OF 77 DECIDED THE NEXT SESSION OF THE CONF SHOULD BE IN 1976 AND HELD IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY, PRE- F-ERAELY AFRICA OR ASIA, (COMMENT; INFORMAL CON- VERSATION INDICATE NAIROBI AND NEW DELHI ARE PRINCIPAL CANDIDATES, DALE Approved For Release 3qq:/08I/R1r ~ P EDg0jS~qk9JR000300090008-0 FUHm Juzub 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDPB 00697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY~ PER r--- TOTAL COPIES V RUN BY ~- pQV/SNG? COPY IS ACTION UNIT REPRODUCTION- BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE If PROHIBITED C U N F I D N T I A L I 2VTN # 0 T 955168 EIA438 PAGE 01001 TUR1191833 APR 75 mwk~- R 191355 APR 75 FM AMEMHASSY LIMA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 4616 RUFHGV/US MISSION GENEVA 202 (SC BT C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMA 3260 FOR USDEL LOS EQ 116521 GDS TAGSI PLOSIPE sit MESSAGE NT- 298 SUBJI PERUVIAN POSITION ON ECONOMIC ZONE REFSI As STATE 77297 (RPT GENEVA 2193) B, STATE 72296 (RPT GENEVA 2194) 1, REFTELS INDICATED THAT PERUVIAN LOS DELEGATION MAY HAVE MODIFIED ITS POSITION ON ECONOMIC ZONE DURING MEETINGS ENDING WEEK MARCH 26. REF A NOTED THAT IN INFORMAL MEET- ING PERU STATED THAT PROBLEMS OF HARMONIZING RIGHTS IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE WERE BEING DISCUSSED AND THAT A DELICATE BALANCE HAD BEEN STRUCK WHICH USDEL TOOK AS ENDORSEMENT OF EVENSEN NEGOTIATIONS RE RESIDUAL RIGHTS, REF 6 THEN POINTED OUT THAT PERU HAD ENDORSED JURISDICTIONAL FORMU- LATIONS CONTAINED IN U.S. DRAFT ARTICLES, 2. COMMENTI WHILE WE ARE NOT IN A POSITION TO COMMENT DEFINITELY 0 THIS DEVELOPMENT, WE PERCEIVE FROM THE RE- PORTING SOME SIGNIFICANT SHIFT IN THE GOP POSITION ON THE ECONOMIC ZONE, WE WOULD THEREFORE APPRECIATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE SPECIFIC PERUVIAN PROPOSALS, IF ANY. AND WHETHER THEY INDICATE A MORE MODERATE PERUVIAN STANCE ON OTHER LOS ISSUES, DEAN Approved For Release 200F2/08/21: CIA-RDIJ82S00697R000300090008-0 '7 rvnm a UAPI 7-71 "?4FG. 3.174 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA- 2S00 97R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BYV PER TOTAL COPIES RPN BY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED AD M I N INTERNAL 'US: O NL Y T 955200 EIA468 PAGE 1 TOR;191934 APR 75 R 1912251 APR 75 ~ZV0" FM U S MISSION GENEVA STATE MESSAGE NC 40321 TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHOC 2255 INFO RUEHDT/US MISSION JSUN NEW YORK 1590 {Q5 = RTEH jA/USI A WASHOC2.460 .-. _ -- UNCLAS SECTION 1AOF 4 GENEVA 2750 4 tae a s w-C 1~e S FROM US DEL LOS wn ~....~. USIA FOR IPS AND IBS E,O. 11652; N/A TAGS; PLUS SUBJECT; LOS; LOS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT'S ASSESSMENT OF WORK FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM TEXT OF LOS CONFERENCE PRESIDENT AMERASINGHE-S EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESS OF WORK AT END OF 5TH WEEK, TEXT WAS DELIVER D IN PLENARY SESSION 18 APRIL FOLLOWED BY PROPOSAL FUR ORGANIf ING REMAINING SESSION i_ -(R~EA- PORTED SEPTEL), SINCE TEXT IS COPY OF AMERASINGHEIS WORKING COPY THE FINAL VERSION, TO dE PUbLISHEU AS UN DOCUMENT, WILL DIFFER IN SOME DETAIL,), TEXT FOLLOWS. BEGIN QUOTE; (OPENING REMARKS) AT THE VERY COMMENCEMENT OF THIS SESSION I INDICATED THAT AT THE END OF THE FIRST THREE WEEKS I WOULD PRESENT TO A PLENARY MEETING OF THE CONFERENCE AN EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESS ACHIEVED UP TO THAT POINT, THAT HAS TURNED OUT TO bE AN UNDULY OPTIMIS- TIC EXPECTATION, AT THE EN,u OF THE FIFTH WEEK, HOW- EVER, I FIND THERE IS SJFFIC:IENT MATERIAL TO JUSTIFY AN EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESS MADE SO FAR, I SHALL DEAL WITH EACH OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES IN TURN, FIRST COMMITTEE; ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE CONFERENCE I APPEALED TO THE MAIN COMMITTEES TO START WORK AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, THE FIRST COMMITTEE ACCORDINGLY MET THE FOLLOWING DAY, AT THI6 FIRST MEETING, THE COM- MITTEE DECIDED TO RECONVENL THE 50-MEMbER, OPEN- ENDED, WORKING GROUP ESTABLISHED IN CARACAS, IN ORDER TO FACILITATE AGREEMENT ON ARTICLES 1-21 RELATING TO THE BASIC PROVISIONS FUR THE REGIME OF THE SEA-BED BEYOND THE LIMITS OF NATIONAL JURISDICTION AND P ART I C U L A R L YAp9 ove%TE o~L&IgafsR" ~/To E- "S ~ W0300090008-0 STAT,,. FORM 30201, 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 TOTAL COPIES RUN BY CABLE SEC DISSEM BVPER --------- AoMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY PERSON/UNIT NOT IFIED _AANCOPY REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE -]---A_ -- - NC 40321 T 9552i0O E I A468 PAGE 02 TuR; 191934t APR 75 THE AREA"4 AND OTHER 3AaIC CUNUITIONS OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE RE;;OURCES OF THE AREA, THE COMMITTEE FELT THAT ITS WORK COULD NOT BEGIN UNTIL SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS HAD OCCURRED IN THE NEGOTIATIONS PURSUED IN THE HORKIN,; GROUP, THE COMMITTEE THEREFORE DECIDED NOT TO MEET AS A WHOLE BUT RATHER TO GIVE AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE TO THt WORKING GROUP. THE WORK- ING GROUP RECONVENED IMMEDIATELY ON THE NEXT DAY, THE WORKING GROUP DEVOTcD ITS FIRST MEETING TO AN APPRAISAL OF ITS PROGRE,)S IN CARACAS AND THE TASKS AHtAU OF IT, AS A THOROUGH ANU FRUITFUL DEBATE OVER ARTICLE 9 HAD ALREADY TAKEN PLACE DURING THE WORKING GROUP'S SIX MttTINGS IN CAriACAa, THE WORKING GROUP DtCIUEU TO BEGIN UISCJSSION ON THE CONDITIONS OF Ex- PLORATIUN AND EXPLOITATION, FOUR PROPOSALS UN THIS QUESTION WERE BEFORE THE WDnKINu GROUP AT THAT TIME AND HAD BEEN INCORPORATED i,v A COMPARATIVE TABLE TO HELP ISOLATE THE VARIOUS POINTS AT ISSUE, THE CHAIR- MAN BRIEFLY DISCUSSED MACH PROVISION, NOTED THE DIF- FERENCES BETWEEN THE VARIOua PROPOSALS, AND ASSESSED THE POSSIBILITIES FOR A RECDNCILIATION OF PREVAILING DIVtRGtNCIES, FINALLY, THE CHAIRMAN CATEGORItED THE PROVISIONS ACCORDING TO THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE FOR AN AGREEMENT ON THE ,3ASI C CONDITIONS OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION AS A WHILE, THE CHAIRMAN'S ASSESS- MENT HCCEIVEU SUPPORT FROM ALL ,IDES IN THE WORKING GROUP, AND HIS CLASSIFICATION OF THE PROVISIONS INTO TWU CATEGORIES, Vii= "FJNDAMENTAL ITEMS FOR IMMEDIATE NEuUTIATIOiN" AND "ITEMS OF A SUBSIDIARY CHARACTER", SERVED AS A GUIDE IN REuARU TO THE SEQUENCE OF SUBJECTS TO Bt UiSCUSSED IN THE SUBSEQUENT MEETINGS OF THE NURKING GROUP, THE WORKING GROUP THIN MtT FUR FOUR CONSECUTIVE WORKING DAYS TO DISCUSS IN uETAIL THE PROVISIONS WHICH WERE DEEMED TO BE OF FJNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE, THESE PRUViSIUNS COULD BE CHARACTtRIt.ED AS BASIC MATTERS OF PRINCIPLE, AS DISTINCT FROM PURELY TECHNICAL MATTERS, WHICH WERE CONSIDERED OF SudSIUTARY IMPORTANCE, MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE IS6J-S OF FUNDAMENTAL IMPORTANCE,S IN C L U D E D T v k1 Fk4liaJLP 2d ivB~ 7`t N- V ROG0090008-0 ~0 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY__.,__?PER_ TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY AOVANgg COPY ISSUED/SLOTTEO By 6T ACTION UNIT T 955200 EIA468 PAGE 03 NC 40321 TUR1191934i APR 75 PUWER, THE METHOD OF NTERING INTO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONDUCT OF ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA, AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLESE OF SUCH ARRANGEMENTS, AND THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES, THE WORKING GROUP BEGAN ITS WORK BY FOCUSING ATTENTION ON THE DETAIED PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE METHOD OF ENTERING INTO ARRANGEMENTS WITH ENTITIES FOR THE CONDUCT OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION ACTI- VITIES AND THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF SUCH ARRANGEMENTS, IN PARTICULAR, TOPICS SJCH AS THE CRITERIA FOR SELEC- TION OF CONTRACTORS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN SUB- SEQUENT STAGES OF OPERATION 6# AND THE NATURE OF THE FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS WERE DISCUSSED; FREQUENTLY DELEGATES REFERRED TO OTHER RELATED TOPICS IN THE COURSE OF THE DEBATE, THESE DISCUSSIONS PRODUCU ENCOURAGING RESULTS, DELEGATIONS AGREED THAT SOME METHOD OF SELECTION AMONG EQUALLY QUALIFIED APPLICANTS FOR MINING RIGHTS IN ORDER TO ENSURE MAXIMUM BENEFITS TO THE AUTHORITY WAS NECESSARY ALTHOUGH THE EXACT NATURE OF THE CRITERIA GOVERNING SELECTION REMAINED UNSETTLED, SOME SEMBLANCE OF AGREEMENT EXISTED OVER THE PRACTICAL NEED FOR PRIORITY BEING ACCORDED IN THE ENTITY THAT HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN EARLIER STASES OF OPERATIONS FOR THE AWARD OF A CONTRACT FOR A SUBSEQUENT STAGE OF OPERATIONS, THE POSSIBILITY OF CONTRACTUAL RELATIONS COVERING MORE THAN ONE STAGE WAS ACCEPTED BY ALL SIDES, THE NEXT SUBJECT DISCUSSED WAS THE STAGES OF OPERATION TO BE UNDER THE AUTHORITY'S CONTROL, DIS- AGREEMENT REMAINED OVER WHETHER THE AUTHORITY COULD CONTROL SUCH STAGES AS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, MARKETING, AND PROCESSING, ALTHOUGH, HAVING REGARD TO THE FACT THAT AUTHORITYIS CONTRACTUAL RELATIONSHIP MIGHT COVER MORE THAN ONE STAGE OF OPERATION, THIS DISAGREEMENT WAS REDUCED TO ONE THAT WAS RELATED MORE T O TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS, THESE TECHNICAL ISSUES IN TURN RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE TYPES OF ARRANGEMENTS INTO WHICH THE AUTHORITY MIGHT ENTER, BY THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRD WEEK, THE DECISION TO DISCUSS THE JOINT VENTURE A5 P REPRODUCTION RY OTHER THAN 15SUING OFFICE IS PROHIR1TtD STATE MESSAGE A U SIdLE rARmAN~jtM oved r NT ~ AU p, jf - ONLY Approved For h elT ~I.I'i~/` IA,~F~ Fl 0V69 0&0300090008-0 bU' % 1 .11 - 7-71 -MFG.-3/74 CABLE SEC DISSEM BV PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT T 955200 EIA468 PAGE 04- TURi191934i APR 75 WORKING GROUP, REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE Is PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 40321 Approved For ReleaseA2 R8/?jfR, DP 0gg97 2000300090008-0 FORM :102013. 7.71 MFG, 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY!_"PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY REPRODUCTION NY OTHER THAN IBSU$NG OFFICE 18 PROHINITED STATE MESSAGE T 955201 EIA469 PAGE 0 NC 40 2Z TUR11919351 APR 75 R 1912251 APR 75 FM U S MISSION GENEVA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2236 INFO RUEHDT/US MISSION JSUN NEW YORK 1591 RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1461 ST UNCLAS SECTION 2 OF 4 GENEVA 2750 FROM US UEL LOS AS DIVERGENT POSITIONS HAD BECOME MANIFEST IN CARACAS, MUTUAL AGREEMENTS TO DISCUSS ONE POSSIBLE SYSTEM COULD BE REGARDED AS A SIGNIFICANT STEP TOWARDS THE RESOLUTION OF WHAT -IAD SEEMED TO BE A DIFFICULT ISSUE, TAKING NOTE OF THIS IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT, THE CHAIRMAN CANCELLED THE MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ORDER TO PERMIT INFORMAL CONSULTA- TIONS IN SMALLER GROUPS, THESE INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS CONTINUED FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK AND WERE SUPPLEMENTED BY MORE MEETINGS OF THE WORKING GROUP, IN THESE VARIOUS FORUMS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF JOINT VENTURES WERE INVESTI- GATED, THE DISCUSSIONS WERE FACILITATED BY INFORMAL TECHNICAL PAPERS ON JOINT VENTURES WHICH WERE SUBMITTED BY THE SECRETARIAT AS WELL AS BY SEVERAL DELEGATIONS, AS A RESULT, THESE DISCUSSIONS IDENTIFIED PRIMARILY TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF JOINT VENTURES VI21--CONTRACTUAL JOINT VENTURES, WHERE AL THE DETAILS OF THE ARRANGE* MENTS WOULD HAVE TO BE SPECIFIED IN A CONTRACT; AND EQUITY JOINT VENTURES, WHERE A NEW LEGAL ENTITY WOULD BE FORMED AND THE ELEMENT OF CONTROL WOULD BE ESTAB- LISHED BY THE AUTHORITY THROUGH EQUITY PARTICIPATION IN THE VENTURE, POINTS OF PARTICULAR CONCERN IN EVALUATING THE ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS INCLUDED THE DEGREE OF FINANCIAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROL TO BE EXERCISED BY THE AUTHORITY OVER ITS PARTNERS IN JOINT VENTURES, DIRECT EXPLO ITAT ION OF THE AREA BY THE AUTHORITY, THE NATURE OF THE AUTHORITY'S CONTRIBUTION. TO THE VENTURE, INCENTIVES FOR PRIVATE OR STATE OPERA- TORS, AND THE LEGAL PROBLEMS, ESPECIALLY THE APPLICABLE LAW, FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF ENTITIES IN THE JOINT VENTURE, DELEGATIONS EXCHANGED VIEWS ON ALL OF THESE C O M P L E X MA C p?& a ISM M ~E ,~ EN U OR:6090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY ACTION # T 955201 EIA469 PAGE TuR1191935~.APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE IMPLICATIONS OF EACH POSSIBLE ARRANGEMENT AND ULTI- MATELY CONCENTRATED ON A SYSTEM THAT WOULD SATISFY THE BASIC INTERESTS OF ALL SIDES, THE DISCUSSIONS HELD DURING THIS THIRD MEEK WERE SO CONSTRUCTIVE THAT THEY LED TO THE FORMULATION OF A SINGLE TEXT ON THE BASIC CONDITIONS OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION TO SERVE AS THE BASIS FOR FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS. AFTER THREE DAYS OF INTENSIVE INFORMAL CONSULTA- TIONS, THE CHAIRMAN PRESENTED AN ANONYMOUS PAPER TO THE WORKING GROUP TO SERVE AS A SINGLE NEGOTIATING TEXT, THE PAPER ELABORATES THE BASIC CONDITIONS FOR A CONTRACTUAL JOINT VENTURE, THIS PAPER WAS NOT IN ANY WAY A NEGOTIATED OR SO-CALLED "COMPROMISE" PAPER, SINCE NO DELEGATIONS WERE COMMITTED TO ANY PART OF THE TEXT, IT SERVED ONLY AS A BASIS FOR NEGOTIATION; IN OTHER WORDS, THE ENTIRE. PAPER IS NEGOTIABLE. CONCENTRATION IS THE FIRST INSTANCE, ON THIS ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM WOULD NOT PREJUDICE SUBSEQUENT DIS- CUSSION OF ANY OTHER SYSTEMS OF EXPLOITATION, NEVER- THELESS, IT WAS FELT THAT SHOULD ALL SIDES FIND COMMON AGREEMENT IN A CONTRACTUAL JOINT VENTURE SYSTEM, NEGOTIATIONS OVER OTHER TYPES OF SYSTEMS WOULD MOVE QUICKLY, AND OVERALL AGREEMENT UN THE BASIC CONDITIONS OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION WOULD BE WITHIN SIGHT, IN THIS SPIRIT, THE WORKING GROUP COMMENCED ITS CON- SIDERATION OF THIS SINGLE TEXT ON MONDAY, APRIL 14. THE WORKING GROUP HOPES TO LOMPLETE THIS PROCEDURE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AS NEGOTIATIONS HAVE STILL TO TAKE PLACE UN THE CLOSELY CONNECTED QUESTION OF THE STRUC- TURE AND FUNCTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL MACHINERY TO BE ESTABLISHED FOR THE EXPLOITATION OF THE SEA-BED RE- SOURCES, IN CONCLUSION, IT IS HOPED THAT THE FIRST COM- MITTEE WILL MAKE SUFFICIENT HEADWAY IN ITS WORK ON THE BASIC CONDITIONS OF EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION AND THE MACHINERY FOR THE INTENNATIONAL SEA-BED AS TO BE A.8LE TO HAVE A SINGLE NEGOTIATING TEXT GOVERNING ITS ENTIRE MANDATE READY AT THk END OF THE PRESENT SESSION, SECOND COMMITTEES T H I S C OAOdrb J FoR keI Ages 2602968/ i'i'C:F kbP$ OT06if 000300090008-0 AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY .ADVANCE COPY ",ISSUED SLOTTED ACTION UNIT I T 955201 EIA469 PAGE TUR; 19.19351 APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE Is PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 403 Z MANDATE COVERS ALMOST THE tNTIkETY OF THE EXISTING INTERNATIONAL LAW OF THE SEA, IS THE PIVOT AND CENTRE OF THIS CONFERENCE, IN A GENERAL WAY, AND IN A REAL SENSE, IT MAY BE SAID THAT NO MAJOR ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED WITHIN THE SECOND COMMITTEE SO FAR, AS DECIDED IN CARACAS, THE COMMITTEE DID NOT HEAR uENERAL STATEMENTS. THE COMMITTEE UNDERTOOK A SECOND READING OF THE MAIN TRENDS UOCUMENTi ISSUES WERE IDENTIFIED ONCE MORE AND WELL- KNOWN POSITIONS RESTATED, DELEGATIONS FREELY COMMENTED ON THE SPECIFIC FORMULATIONS OF WPI1 AND EXPRESSED THEIR PREFERENCE FOR ONE OH MORE OF THESE FORMULATIONS, QUESTIONS OF REAL SUBSTANCE SUCH AS THOSE CONCERNING THE PROBLEMS OF LAND-LOCKED COUNTRIES AND STRAITS STATES LIE AT THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM IN THIS COM- MITTEE, ALTHOUGH IT HAS TOUCHED ON EVERY ISSUE WHILE GOING THROUGH THE SECOND READING OF W,P, 1 DURING ITS INFORMAL MEETINGS, IT HAS NOT ADDRESSED ITSELF SPECI- FICALLY TO ANY OF THOSE MAJOR ISSUES WHICH ARE CONSID- ERED TO BE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS OF A PACKAGE DEAL, THESE ISSUES WERE LEFT TU SMALL INFORMAL WORKING GROUPS CONSTITUTED MAINLY eY SPECIAL INTERESTS, THEY EXAMINED SUCH ITEMS AS THE TERRITORIAL SEA, BASELINES, CONTIGUOUS ZONE, TRANSIT AND HIGH SEAS, THE MAJOR PURPOSE OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THESE SMALL INFORMAL WORKING GROUPS WAS TO ALLOW DELEGATIONS WITH SPECIAL INTERESTS IN A PARTICULAR SUBJECT TO TRY TO REDUCE THE ALTERNATIVES AND, IF POSSIBLE, TO PRODUCE A SINGLE TEXT, THESE GROUPS ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF CARRY- ING OUT INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS AND, EXCEPT IN A FEW CASES, THEIR WORK CANNOT BE ASSESSED AT THIS STAGE. THE INFORMAL GROUP ON BASELINES WAS AELE TO PRODUCE A REVISED CONSOLIDATED TEXT (C.2/BLUE PAPER NO, 4), THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP UN HIGH SEAS IS PREPARING A TEXT WHICH SEEMS TO COMMAND WIDE SUPPORT AMONG THE MEMBERS OF THAT GROUP, THE SUBJECT MATTER BEFORE THESE TWO GROUPS IS OF A LESS CONTROVERSIAL NATURE AND MOST OF THE FORMULATIONS ARE DRAWN FROM THE 1958 GENEVA CONVENTION, THIS MAY EXPLAIN THE DEGREE OF PROGRESS ACHIEVED ON THOSE S 1i3J Ceai%gq q 4%, R gg ~ ?Aroved or I~el / I R 2 6 78000300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER _,_ PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED_______ _ApVANCJCOPY ISSUED/SLOTTED ACTION UNIT E I A 4 6 9 STATE MESSAGE REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 18 PROH1111111TRID AJMIN INTERNAL USE-UNL_Y_jl NC 40322 TOR1191935APR 75 THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON THE TERRITORIAL SEA WAS NOT ABLE TO ARRIVE AT ANY RESULT AND DECIDED TO SUSPEND ITS MEETI N3S, THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON HISTORIC BAYS AND WATER,) HAS BEFORE IT A NUMBER OF INFORMAL BLUE PAPERS (C.2/BLUE PAPERS NOS. 1/REV,1, 2, 3 AND 3/REV,1) BUT JR TO NOW NO CONSENSUS HAS BEEN REACHED ON THOSE TEXTS, THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE WHICH HAS HELD ONLY ONE MEETING SEEMED TO SHOW SOME DEGREE OF AGREEMENT ON THE CONTENT OF THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE JURISDICTION. THE MEMBERS OF THIS GROUP ALSO SHOWED A DEGREE OF AGREEMENT THAT A STATE WHICH CHOOSES NOT TO EXTEND ITS TERRITORIAL SEA TO A 12-MILE LIMIT COULD HAVE A CONTIGUOUS ZONE UP TO THAT LIMIT, Approved For ReleaseA2~0R?,(8/1EQ)0ARDP8SOqN97000300090008-0 FORM 3020b- 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY AJMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY ADVANCE COPY ISSUED SLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT T 955204 EIA472 PAGE TUR1191937/Z APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 4032` R 191225E APR 75 FM U S MISSION GENEVA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHOC 2237 INFO RUEHDT/US MISSION JSUN NEW YORK 1592 RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1462 BT UNCLAS SECTION 3 OF 4 GENEVA 2750 FROM USOEL LOS THE MAIN ISSUES HERE REMAIN THE INTEHRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONTIGUOUS ZONE AND THE ECONOMIC ZONE AND THE QUESTION OF THE PLJRALiTY OF' REGIMES, THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUP ON THE QUESTION OF TRANSIT HELD ONLY ONE MEETING, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE, HAVING IN MIND THE COMPLEXITY OF THIS MATTER AND CONSIDERING THAT ITS RESOLUTION WOULD FACILITATE THE TASK OF THE CONFERENCE, DECIDED FIRST TO HOLD A PRELIMINARY MEETING WITH A SMALL GROUP OF DELEGATIONS FROM BOTH SIDES TO DETERMINE THE POSSI- BILITY OF INITIATING A PROCESS OF NEGOTIATION BETWEEN THEM AND ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP ON THE SUBJECT, THE MEETING DEFINITLY REVEALED THE WILLINGNESS OF DELEGATIONS TO ENGAGE IN SUCH NEGOTIATIONS AND THERE- AFTER THE CHAIRMAN ESTABLISHED A GROUP ON THE SUBJECT, OTHER GROUPS ALREADY IN cXISTENCE BUT WHICH HAVE NOT MET SO FAR INCLUDE THE INFORMAL WORKING GROUPS ON ARCHIPELAGOS, THE CONTINENTAL SHELF, DELIMITATION AND INNOCENT PASSAGE, (SIC) GROUPS ON SUCH IMPORTANT QUES- TIONS AS STRAITS, ISLANDS AND THE ECONOMIC ZONE WOULD PROBABLY BEGIN MEETING AS OF NEXT WEEK, ANOTHER PRIVATE GROUP Ia ALSO WORKING ON THE PROBLEMS OF LANDLOCKED AND GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVANTAGED STATES, THERE HAS SEEN ONLY SLOW PROGRESS ON QUESTION WHETHER THERE SHOULD BE EQU~L RIGHTS FOR EXPLORING AND EXPLOITING BOTH THE LIVING AND NON- LIVING RESOURCES OF THE ZONE, THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE WORK OF THE PRIVATE GROUP ON SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES HAS BEEN TO PREPARE SINGLE TEXTS FROM THE ALTERNATIVES IN A/CONF,62/L,7, THE ISSUES THAT HAVE $O FAR PROVED TO BE MOST CONTRO- V E R S I A L A R kppb cSveFd - e 6.20 10 8/ T E9 - DPR 5099X772000300090008-0 ugfN FORM JU2Ob 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY NOTIFIED -- PERSON/UNIT ADVANCE COPY ISSUED SLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT RF . FILE VR REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE T 955204 EIA47,2 PAGE PV NC 4032,Jr TUR;1919371 APR 75 (A) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SYSTEM OF COMPLUSORY JURISDICTION FOR ALL DISPUTES ARISING OUT OF THE CON- VENTION; THE CREATION OF A LAW OF THE SEA TRIBUNAL) (B) THE RELATION BETWEEN SPECIAL PROCEDURES AND THE OVERALL MACHINERY FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES) (C) THE PROBLEMS OF THE PLURALITY OF JURIS- DICTION; INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE, LAW OF THE SEA TRIBUNAL AND ARBITRATIUiN; (U) THE QUESTION OF EXvLU51VE NATIONAL JURIS- DICTION IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE) DELIMITATION BETWEEN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL JURISDICTIONI (E) THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A COMPULSORY CONCILI- ATION PROCEDURE AS A PRELIMINARY STAGE. SEVERAL DRAFTS HAVE SEEN PRODUCED IN AN EFFORT TO RECONCILE DIFFERENT VIEWS EXPRESSED BY PARTICIPANTS UN THESE ISSUES AND IT IS HOPED THAT A DOCUMENT CAN BE PRODUCED t Y THE MIDDLi OF NEXT WEEK. OTHER QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN FORMING THE SUBJECT OF INFORMAL OR PRIVATE NEGOTIATIONS ARE) GENERAL PROVISIONS OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE; A R T I F I C I A L ISLANDS AND INSTALLATIONS I N THE ECONOMIC ZONE; LIVING RESOURCES OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE; OPTIMUM UTILIZATION OF THE RESOURCES OF THE ECONOMIC ZONE) CONSERVATION AND MANAaaMENT OF SUCH RESOURCES; FISHING AGREEMENTS WITH NEIGHBOURING STATES) GEOGRAPHICALLY UISADVANTAGEL' STATES) LANL-LUCKED STATES; HIGHLY MIGRATORY SPECIES; ANADROMOUS STOCKS; CATAUROMOUS SPECIES, CERTAIN ISSUES WERE NOT CONSIDERED UP TO NOW BY THE SECOND COMMITTEE TO ENABLE THE INFORMAL GROUPS TO PRODUCE SOME RESULTS WHICH AOULD CONTRIbUTE TO CON- STRUCTIVE NEGOTIATION IN THE COMMITTEE AS A WHOLE, THERE I S STILL A MARKED DIVISION REGARDING THE RIGHTS OF LANDLOCKED AND OTHER GEOGRAPHICALLY DIS- ADVA,NTAGED COUNTRIES IN THE ECONOMIC ZONE. NO REAL AGREEMENT S ~Pp0r~ 1+ r e~eya U1 Q D t E lR J@S?( "9OVERSY FuRm JU4ur) 7.71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM By PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED/SLOTTED T 955204 EIA472 AuMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY TORT 1919374 APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 13 PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 4032Y CENTERED AROUND OTHER GEOGRAPHICALLY DISADVANTAGED STATES, THE GROUP OF 77 HAS HELD SEVERAL MEETINGS UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF AMBASSADOR KEDADI OF TUNISIA, THIS GROUP COORDINATES THE WORK OF THE THREE CONTACT GROUPS OF THE GROUP OF 77, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE WORKING GROUP OF 77 ON SECOND COMMITTEE MATTERS, MR. FRANK NJENGA OF KENYA. IS PREPARING A PAPER ON THE ECONOMIC ZONE, THE RESULTS OF THE DISCUSSIONS IN THE GROUP OF 77 ARE AWAITED, THIS IS THE PRESENT POSITION IN THE SECOND COMMITTEE, THIRD COMMITTEES THE THIRD COMMITTEE HAS HELD FOUR FORMAL MEETINGS, DURING WHICH SEVERAL PROPOSALS WERE INTRODUCED, THESE PROPOSALS ARE CONTAINED IN DOCUMENTS A/CONF,62/ C,3/L,24, L,25, L,26, AND L,27, THE SECRETARIAT OF THE UNITED NATIONS HAS ALSO PRESENTED A STUDY TO THE COMMITTEE, WHICH THE COMMITTEE REQUESTED DURING THE SESSIONS IN CARACAS, THE STUDY BEING ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY, THIS STUDY IS CONTAINED IN DOCUMENT A/CONF,62XC,3/L,22. THE UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME IN RESPONSE TO A REQUEST BY THE THIRD COMMITTEE DURING THE CARACAS SESSION PRESENTED A STUDY ON THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING SYSTEM OF UNEP, CONTAINED IN DOCUMENT A/CONF,62/C,3/L,23, MUST OF THE WORK OF THE THRID COMMITTEE HAS BEEN CONDUCTED DURING ITS INFORMAL SESSIONS ON ITEM 12, THE PRESERVATION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT AND ITEMS 13 AND 14, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY, THESE INFORMAL SESSIONS ARE HELD ALTERNATIVELY DURING TH MORNINGS, WHILE AFTERNOONS HAVE SEEN PUT ASIDE AT THE DISPOSAL OF DELEGATIONS TO CONDUCT NEGOTIATIONS, THESE ARRANGEMENTS HAVE, UP TO NOW, PROVED SATISFACTORY IN ADVANCING THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE, BUT OF LATE CERTAIN DIFFICULTIES HAVE ARISEN AS A RESULT OFMEETIiNGS OF REGIONAL GROUPS C 0 N F L I G T I N G ~~o oI~- "ejeaC,ip6 - kk~ ~4 k 4~-**~~HV'7ROO0300090008-0 FVnm JVLVb 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY _-A LANCE COPY ISSN9DZSLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT T 955204 E I A472 PAGE ki4 1 TUR11919371 APR 75 OF THE INFORMAL SESSIONS, UN THIS POINT MY ONLY EXHORTATION WOULD BE THAT THE TIMING OF MEETINGS OF ALL GROUPS-REGIONAL, FORMAL OR INFORMAL-BE FIXED BY THEIR CHAIRMEN OR CONVENERS IN CONSULTATION WITH THE MAIN COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN CONCERNED, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE IN HIS STATEMENT BEFORE THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON 15 APRIL PROPOSED THAT EVERY OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE AFFORDED TO THE CHAIRMEN OF THE INFORMAL SESSIONS TO CARRY OUT WHATEVER NEGOTIATIONS THEY CONSIDERED NECESSARY FUR THE PROGRESS OF THE WORK OF THE COMMITTEE, A STATEMENT OF WHAT THE INFORMAL SESSIONS OF THE COMMITTEE HAVE BEEN ABLE TU ACCOMPLISH UP TO NOW FOLLOWS, REPRODUCTION ^Y OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHISITBD STATE MESSAGE NC 40322: -- Approved For Relel??0R2/pp/F-1~tqt-RLpS,P 82FNL Y 7R000300090008-0 FUMM sI2O. 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY_ PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED_ ADVANCE COPYISSSUED/SLOTTD_ ACTION UNITT v I T 955205 EIA473 ALMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY TUR11919,39t APR 75 REPRODUCTION ^Y OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHI$1TMb STATE MESSAGE NC 40320 R 1912252 APR 75 FM U S MISSION GENEVA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 2248 INFO RUEHDT/US MISSION JSUN NEW YORK 1593 RUEHIA/USIA WASHDC 1463 BT UNCLAS SECTION 4 OF 4 GENEVA 2750 FROM USDEL LOS INFORMAL SESSIONS ON ITEM 12 (PRESERVATION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT)a AT ITS 12TH MEETI+NG, THc FIRST MEETING OF THE GENEVA SESSION, THE COM;MITTtE RESUMED ITS WORK. THE CHAIRMAN MADE A STATEMENT SUMMARIiING THE RESULTS ACHIEVED AT CARACAS, AS REFLECTED IN DOCUMENT A/CONF, 62/C,3/L,15, HE THEN OJTLINED THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK FOR THE CURRENT SESSION WHICH WAS DESIGNED TO ADVANCE THE WORK PREVIOJSLY ACCOMPLISHED, THIS ORGANIZATION CONSISTS OF THE PREPARATION OF COMMON TEXTS RELATING TO THE VARIOUS ITEMS CONTAINED IN DOCUMENT A/CONF,62/C,3/L,14/ADD,1, THIS PAPER, AS WILL BE RECALLED, SETS OUT PROPOSALS OR AMENDMENTS INTRODUCED BUT NOT YET DISCUSSED, ACCORDINGLY, WORK HAS BtuUN WITH THE TEXT RELATING TO MONITORING WHICH SHOJLD bE FOLLOWED by TEXTS RELATING TO THE QUESTIU.N OF PUTTING "AN END TO VIOLATIONS AND TO THE EFFECTS THEREOF" AND TO STANDARDS, AS IN CARACAS, THE ACTUAL WORK IS CARRIED OUT AT TWO LEVELS 11 THE INFORMAL SESSION ON ITEM 12, AND 2, THE DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING GROUP, ON THE CHAIRMAN'S SUGGESTION MOST OF THE CURRENT WORK HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE AT THE LEVEL OF THE DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING GROUP, AS THIS HAS CLEARLY BEEN THE MOST EFFICIENT MEDIUM FOR THE PREPARATION OF COMMON TEXTS. TO DATE THE GROUP HAS PKEPAkED AND APPROVED A COMMON TEXT ON MONITORING CONTAINED IN DOCUMENT CRP/MP/16, THE GROUP HAS SEGJN CONS ggoii#t~? qt$ VL, ~1~ Approved For Relea~% aL-F~ E vNuo 000300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY_ PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY -ADVANCE COPY ISSUED SLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT I T 9552wp) EIA473 PAGE NC 403 ( TuR119i939 APR 75 QUESTION OF STANDARDS, FOR THIS PURPOSE THE GROUP FOLLOWS THE METHOD OF WORK APPROVED IN CARACAS (SEE DOCUMENT A/CONF,62/C,3/L,14) WHICH IS BASED ON VARIOUS SOURCES OF MARINE POLLUTION, THE FIRST QUESTION UNDER THIS METHOD OF WORK, MARINE POLLUTION FROM LANDbASED SOURCES, HAS BEEN ALREADY DISCUSSED AND A TEXT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE INFORMAL SESSION ON THE BASIS OF A DRAFT PRESENTED BY THE CHAIRMAN (SEE DOCUMENT CHP/MP/17/ADD,2), A PROPOSAL DEALING WITH THE PREPARATION OF USSESSMENTS OF THE POTENTIAL EFFECTS ON THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT OF PLANNED ACTIVITIES, CONTAINED IN DOCUMENT CRP/MP/16, WAS APPROVED BY THE INFORMAL SESSION AT ITS LAST MEETING, THE SUBJECT BEING DISCUSSED BY THE GROUP IS "MARINE POLLUTION FROM ACTIVITIES CONCERNING EXPLORATION AND EXPLOITATION OF THE SEABED WITHIN THE AREAS OF NATIONAL JURISDICTION," THE QUESTION OF "OBLIGATION TO PUT AN END TO VIOLATIONS AND TO THE EFFECTS THEREOF." WILL BE TAKEN UP IN CONNECTION WITH THE QUESTION OF RESPONSI- BILITY AND LIABILITY AND THt SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES, INFORMAL SESSIONS ON ITEMS 13 AND 143 (SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY), DURING THE PERIOD 17 MARCH TO 12 APRIL THERE WERE SIX INFORMAL MEETINGS OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE DEALING WITH ITEMS 13 AND 14. SMALLER DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING GROUPS COMPOSED OF THE MOST INTERESTED DELEGATIONS UNDER THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF MR, METTERNICH, HELD 11 MEETINGS ON THE SAME SUBJECTS, THE INFORMAL MEETINGS DtCIUED TO START THE DIS- CUSSION OF THE ITEMS WHICH HAD BEEN LEFT OVER FROM CARACAS AND, THEREFORE, DEALT FIRST WITH "STATUS OF SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT IN THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT," THE DEBATE WAS QUITE EXHAUSTIVE. AND TOOK PLACE BOTH IN INFORMAL PLENARY MEETINGS AS WELL AS IN DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING GROUPS, VARIOUS DELEGATIONS SUBMITTED NEW TEXTS, WHICH WERE REPRODUCED IN DQCJHENT CRP/1, TWO FURTHER TEXTS. WHICH ATTEMPTED TO RACH A COMPROMISE, WERE SUBMITTED TO THE C~R ~ j l j RNA Approve or e e / .IA~DF7$~N~697R000300090008-0 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE rvnm aONb 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BV PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED _______________ ALJMIIJ INTERNAL USE ONLY _APyAI c PY ISSUED/SLOTTED Y___ AT ACTION UNIT T 955205 EIA473 PAGE fd TUR11919394 APR 75 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE NC 40324' INTENSIVE NEGOTIATIONS AND WERE REPRODUCED IN CRP/2, IT WAS NOT POSSIBLE, HOWEVLR, TO REACH AGREEMENT ON ANY SINGLE COMPROMISE TEXT, ALTHOUGH THREE SUBSEQUENT ATTEMPTS WERE MADE BY THE CHAIRMAN To CONSOLIDATE IN ONE TEXT THE VARIOUS VIEWS LXPRESSED IN THE COURSE OF THE NEGOTIATIONS, FINALLY IT WAS DECIDED TO "FREEZE11 FOR THE TIME BEING THE TWO ALTERNATIVE TEXTS CONTAINED IN CRP/2. THE INFORMAL MEETINGS THEN WENT ON To DISCUSS THE ITEM "RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY," THIS DISCUSSION IS CONTINUING, VARIOUS DELEGATIONS PRESENTED NEW TEXTS, WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN DOCUMENTS CRP/3,4,5,6, AND 7, AN ATTEMPT TO DRAFT A SINGLE COMPROMISE TEXT WAS MADE AT THE LEVEL OF THE DRAFTING AND NEGOTIATING GROUP, A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT WAS REACHED ON A TEXT OF A GENERAL NATURE AND WAS REPHODUCED IN CRP/8. SOME DELEGATIONS, HOWEVER, STILL SEEM TO BELIEVE THAT THIS COMPROMISE TEXT IS NOT SUFFICIENT AND SHOULD BE SUPPLEMENTED, WHEN THE DISCUSSION ON "RESPONSIBILITY AND LIABILITY" IS COMPLETED, THE INFORMAL MEETINGS WILL, PRESUMABLY, DECIDE TO DEAL WITH THE SUBJECT OF "CONDUCT OF MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH," WHICH CONSTITUTES THE CRUCIAL ISSUE WITHIN THE GROJP+S COMPETENCE, TWO MEETINGS OF THE MOST INTERESTED DELEGATIONS HAVE SO FAR TAKEN PLACE ON THIS SUBJECT, IT WAS SUGGESTED TO TAKE AS A FRAME- WORK FOR DISCUSSION THE NEW TEXT (L,26) SUBMITTED BY A GROUP OF SOCIALIST COUNTRIES AS THE TEXT APPEARED TO BE QUITE COMPREHENSIVE, ON THE CHAIRMAN'S SUGGESTION, DELEGATIONS HAVE ALREADY BttN DISCUSSING THE QUESTION AMONG THEMSELVES, THE SUBJECT OF "TRANSFER AND DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, HAS NOT YET BEEN DEALT WITH, ALTHOUGH SOME DELEGATIONS EXPRESSED AT THE OUTSET THE VIEW THAT THIS SUBJECT SHOULD 9E DISCUSSED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AN APPEAL WAS MADE TO ALL DELEGATIONS TO SUBMIT DRAFT PROPOSALS ON THIS MATTERS HOWEVER, SO FAR NO NEW TEXT HAS BEEN SUBMIITTED, AND THE ONLY TEXT AS CARRIED O V E R F R O M Approv d For Rele se62 0 4eTO300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 3/74 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED ADVANCE COPY ISSUED SLOTTED RF, FILE , VR T 955205 EIA473 REPRODUCTION RV OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED AUMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY PAGE polow 17 TOR1191.939R_APR 75 DI SCUSSEO BY ITS OWN SPONSORS WITH A VIEW TO MAKING A REVISION, THE FOLLOWING COMMENTS ARE RELEVANT IN REGARD TO THE ORGANIZATION OF WORK ANU THE PROGRESS ACHIEVED IN THE THIRD COMMITTEE, THE PATTERN'OF MEETINGS ESTABLISHED IN CARACAS HAS PROVED TO BE ADEQUATE FUR THE NEGOTIATING PROCESS, THE MOST FRUITFUL NEGOTIATIONS ARE TAKING PLACE ON THE INITIATIVE OF THE CHAIRMAN WHO BRINGS TOGETHER DELEGATIONS OF THE VARIOUS INTEREST GROUPS AND TRIES TO PRESENT AMALGAMATED COMPHOMISE TEXTS TO THEM, ON THE OTHER HAND, THERE SEEMS TO BE TOO LITTLE READINESS ON THE PART OF THE DIFFERENT INTEREST GROUPS TO NE- GOTIATE WITH ONE ANOTHER, WHILE PROBABLY A DISPROPOR- TIONATE AMOUNT OF TIME IS BEING SPENT BY SOME GROUPS IN DISCUSSING AND DEFINING THEIR OWN POSITION, IT WOULD APPEAR THAT THE DECISION TO LEAVE THE AFTERNOONS FREE FROM GENERAL MEETINGS (BOTH FORMAL OR INFORMAL) HAS NOT PROVED AS SATISFACTORY UN ARRANGEMENT AS WAS EXPECTED, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE TIME HAS BEEN UTILIZED MAINLY BY REaIONAL GROUPS. WHOSE DISCUSSIONS SOMETIMES TEND TO HARDEN THe; ORIGINAL POSITIONS. RATHER THAN STIMULATING NEGUTIATION WITH OTHER GROUPS, THE BUREAU OF THE THIRD COMMITTEE MET ON WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL. AND DECIDED THAT FOR THE TIME BEING THE WORKING ARRANGEMENTS OF THE COMMITTEE SHOULD BE KEPT INTACT, THE BUREAU FELT THAT THE PROGRESS THE COMMITTEE HAS ACHIEVED TO DATE. ALTHOUGH SLOW, HAS BEEN COMPARATIVELY SATISFACTORY, THE CHAIRMEN WILL KEEP IN CLOSE TOUCH WITH DELEGATIONS WHEN CONSIDERING ANY FUTURE CHANGES, THIS UONCLUDES MY EVALUATION OF THE PROGRESS ACHIEVED SO FAR, END UUOTE.DALE STATE MESSAGE NC 40324' 9R000300090008-0 Approved For ReleaseA2002/08(2N1 -EcIA--RD U S ES0ONLY ?w l 11 7-71 MFG. 2/75 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY, PER TOTAL COPIES .. 49 RUN BY Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 25X1 T 95 44 7 TURK 1909401 APR 75 -o'V, p~/ Inc? P-'-~v~ r 4r_ - vv~eeti'\ U rM F.P SUBJECT; UNtP GC/III, EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS REMARKS ON LOS 1. FOLLOWING IS VERBATIM TbXT OF EXTRACT FROM EHOECU- TIVE DIRECTOR STRONG'S OPENING STATEMENT TO 3RD SES- SION OF UNEP GOVERNMING COUNCIL. APRIL 17/ RELATING TO LOS CONFERENCE AND ENVIRONMENT; QUOTE THERE ARE, HOWEVER. A NUMBER OF OTHER IMPORTANT AREAS IN WHICH I BELIEVE THAT PROGRESS TO DATE HAS NOT BEEN SATISFACTORY, AND TO WHICH I WOULD ESPECIALLY COMMEND THE ATTENTION OF THE GOVERNING COUNCIL. THESE INCLUDE; INCORPORATION IN THE AGREEMENTS BEING NEGO- TIATED AT THE LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE OF ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF QCEANS AND THEIR LIVING RESOURCES, BASED ON THE DEEP INTEREST WHICH THE GOVERNING COUNCIL REGISTERED N THIS M TIER AT ITS LAST SESSION. I PRESkNTLD TO THE LAW OF HE SEA CONFERENCE, AT CARACAS, SPECIFIC PROPOSALS FOR INCLU- SION OF ENVIRONMENTAL MEASURES IN THE AGREEMENTS UNDER CONSIDERATION, BUT I REGRET TO SAY THAT, NEITHER AT CARACAS NOR YET AT THE RESUMED SESSION OF THE CCONFER- Approved For Release 2QO;104/21: ~I4tRQPf q.697R000300090008-0 R 190800 APR 75 FM AMEMBASSY NAIROBI TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDG 2442 INFO RUEHDT/USMISSION JSUN NEW YORK 466 RUFHGV/USM ISSI ON GENEVA 294 RUDTC/AMEMBASSY LONDON 1975 RUEHCR/AMCONSUL MONTREAL 36 RUFNPS/AMEMBASSY PARIS 2572 RUFHRO/AMEM8ASSY ROME 368 RUFHAU/AMEMBASSY VIENNA 60 BT C O N F I D E N T I A L LIMITED OFFICIAL USE NAIROBI 3176 GENEVA FOR LOS DEL VIENNA FOR I AE A AND UNIDO PARIS FOR UNESCO ROME FOR F OD AG MONTREAL FOR ICAO E.01 11652; N/A TAGS; UNEP, SENV, PLUS C O N F I D E N T I A L REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE -uv JULU0 7-71 MFG. 2/75 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000300090008-0 CABLE SEC DISSEM TOTAL COPIES RUN BY PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED T I L 1 C U N F_ D E N A -AJP_Y ANCC!'-OPY I-^ UED;!SLOTTED BY AT ACTION UNIT I T 954470 EIA763 PAGE 02-02 TOR 1 19 09 401 APR 75 REPRODUCTION NY OTHER THAN ISSUING OFFICE 18 PROHIRITED STATE MESSAGE ENCE IN GENEVA IS THERE EVIDENCE THAT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS ARE RECEIVING THE ATTENTION AND PRIORITY THEY DESERVE, I AM DEEPLY CONCERNED - INDEED ALARMED- THAT WE ARE THUS IN DANGER OF ALLOWING SHORT-TERMS AND PERHAPS ILLUSORY ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS TO OVER-RIDE THE LARGER AND LONGER TERM INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE HUMAN COMMUNITY IN ASSURING THAT DEVELOPMENT OF OCEAN RESOURCES, INCLUDING THE SEA BED, IS NOT ACCOMPANIED BY DEGRADATION OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT, ITS LIFE- SUPPORTING SYSTEMS AND IS LIVING RESOURCES, IN OUR OWN INTERESTS AND THOSE OF FUTURE GENERATIONS, SURELY THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY UA AND A RESPONSIBILITY- WE SIMPLY CANNOT AFFORD TO SET ASIDE, A4'CORDINGLY, I WOULD URGE THE GOVERNING COUNCIL AT THIS SESSION TO REGISTER ITS DEEP CONCERN WITH THIS MATTER AND BRING IT TO THE ATTENTION OF THE LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE NOW MEETING IN GENEVA. ENO QUOTE, 2, DELEGATION ANTICIPATES THAT REQUEST IN LAST SENTENCE FOR GC III ACTION WIL BE GENERALLY ENDORRSED, DELEGATION WILL KEEP DEPARTMENT ADVISED ON FURTHER DISCUSSION THIS ISSUE, IN MEANTIME, HOWEVER, DELEGATION WOULD APPRECIATE GUIDANCE ON U.S, POSITION THIS ISSUE, MARSHALL NC 39959 Approved For Release ;0 /q8/l1 "-R Dl 82IS0p627R000300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2175 7..- CABLE SEC DISSEM Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S006~7R000300090008-0 / ~- / -0 ADVANCE COPY I; ACTION UNIT T 95390 TOTAL COPIES RUN BY C U N F I D E N T I A LT1 TOR11 52i APR 75 R 1618 47; APR 7~) FM U S MISSION GENEVA TO SECSTATE WASHDC 2230 ET C O N F I U E N T I A LIMITED OFFICIAL USE GENEVA 2746 FROM USDEL LOS L. .GS 11652; N/A TAGS 1 PLOS SUBJECT; MEETING OF C-II INFORMAL CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON THE HIGH SEAS, P,M? 17 APRIL 1975 It BUREAU DISTRIBUTED i2 /6 LU E PA PA ER NO* 9# CONSOLIDATED TEXT ON THE HIGH SEAS o PROVISIONS 139 TO 153 AND 164 TO 177 IN MAIN TRENDS PAPER, PAPER POUCHED DEPT, TEXT SATISFACTORY I N GENERAL, 2, COMPLETED SECOND READING WITH ACCEPTED TEXTS PROVISIONS 139, 140, AND 141, IN ALL SUBSTANTIAL RESPECTS I N MAIN TRENDS PAPER FORM. 3, PROVISION 142 CONSOLIDATED WITH PROVISION 146, MEETING CLOSED WITH PROVISION 142/146 GENERALLY ACCEPTABLE EXCEPT FOR MERGER OF WHAT WERE ORIGINALLY PROVISIONS 142-4 AND 1463 OF MAIN TRENDS PAPER, BUREAU TO UNDERTAKE CONSULTATIONS IN EFFORT TO REACH ACCOMMODATION,DALE REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAI' ISSUING OFFICE 18 PROHIBITED STATE MESSAGE 1 -- Approved For Releasg2O2p(A8t~21I: glAERqPFSl00J91R000300090008-0 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/75 T 950358 01-101 1 NC 38340 TOR:1805322 APR 75 -N, -MIN c- V, V SUBJ: MINISTER MOCHTAR ON LOS CONFERENCE ACCORDING PRESS REPORTS APRIL 16, FOLLOWING CALL ON PRESIDENT SUHARTO APRIL 17, CHIEF INDONESIAN LOS DELEGATION JUSTICE MINISTER MOCHTAR STATED THAT HE WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC GENEVA CONFERENCE WOULD YIELD A GENERAL CONVENTION, MOCHTAR REPORTEDLY ADDED THAT GENEVA MEETING IS PROVING MORE COMPLEX THAN WAS CARACAS MEETING, AND THAT MORE CONFERENCE SESSIONS WOULD BE NEEDED BEFORE A GENERAL CONVENTION COULD BE REACHED, NEWSOM R 180340E APR 75 FM AMEMBASSY JAKARTA TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC 7639 INFO RUFHST/US MISSION GENEVA 228 RUMVC/AMEMBASSY MANILA 4916 BT UNCLAS JAKARTA 4604 -E,O. 11652: N/A TAGS: PLOS, ID Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S00697 0030009000 0 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY~PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY ' ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY Approved For Release 2003,9P2 : l 2S8 97R2P00090008-0 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIE STATE MESSAG