THIRD SESSION PROVISIONAL SUMMARY RECORD OF THE EIGHTH MEETING

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• Publication Date: March 25, 1975
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THIRD CONFERENCE
ON THE LAW OF THE SEA
Third Session
GENERAL COMMITTEE
PROVISIONAL SUMMARY RECORD OF THE EIGHTH MEETING
held at the Palais des Nations,. Geneva,
on Monday, 24 March 1975, at 10.15 a.m.
Chairman: Mr. AMERASINGHE Sri Lanka
Rapporteur-
General: Mr. RATTRAY Jamaica
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25 March 1975
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Original: FRENCH
CONTENTS
Officers of the Conference and membership of the subsidiary organs
Progress of work: reports by the Chairmen of the Committees
N.B. Participants wishing to have corrections to this provisional summary record
incorporated in the final summary record of the meeting are requested to
submit them in writing in quadruplicate, preferably on a copy of the record
itself, to the Official Records Editing Section, room E.4121, Palais des Nations,
Geneva, within five working days of receiving the provisional,,.record in their.
working language.
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OFFICERS OF THE CONFERENCE AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE SUBSIDIARY ORGANS
Time CHAIRMAN announced that the Group of Western European and other States
had informed him that Mr. J.S. Bailey (Australia) would replace Mr. Mott (Australia)
as Rapporteur of the First Committee.
PROGRESS OF WORK: REPORTS BY THE CHAIRMEN OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES ?
The CHAIRMAN invited the Vice-Chairman of the First Committee, the Chairman
of which was unable to attend the meeting, to report.
Mr. FLORES (Brazil), Vice-Chairman of the First Committee, said that the
:,ommittee had met briefly on Tuesday, 18 March, to organize its work. It had requested
the Chairman of the 50-member Working Group set up during the second session of the
Conference to resume negotiations in articles 1 to 21 relating to the principles of the
regime, and in particular on article 9, which dealt with conditions for exploration and
exploitation. The Working Group had held meetings thrcughoui the week at which there
had been an encouraging exchange of ideas and views. T ie:,Cx. n of his Committee
would be able to report at the end of the following week on the results achieved,
in particular with regard to article 9, during the first three weeks' work.
Mr. GALINDO-POHL (El Salvador), Chairman of the Second Committee, said-that
the Committee had held a formal meeting on Tuesday, 18 Mrrch, at which it had
organized its work and had decided to hold meetings only in the morninge, reserving
the afternoons for consultations. The Second Committee had also decided, for the sake
of continuity, to use as a basis for its work document A/CONF.62/C.2/WPl and to give it
a second reading in the course of -which the Committee would endeavour to reduce the
considerable number :,f variants. It was understood that the u ruing meetings would be
used to decide on the topics for the consultations which were to take plans in the
afternoon. There were often two sets of consultations, since the officers of the,
Committee were making proposals and delegations were holding consultations among
themselves. Thus, on three consecutive days, a group of delegations had worked under
the chairmanship of the representative of Afghanistan on the definition of territorial
Sea in an endeavour to reduce the number of variants. The officers of the Committee
.ad also held consultations on the subject and had decided that it wan better to
wait until definitions had been found for archipelagic waters and plurality of regimes.
consultations had also taken place on other questions such as bays, historic waters
and criteria for defining territorial sea. The Committee had decided that it would hold
formal meetings when necessary in order to hear proposals and ideas submitted by States
or-groups of States. So far, however, there had been no requests for such meetings.
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Mr. YANKO1 (Bulgaria),' Chairman of the Third Committee, said that it.. had met
on,Wednesday, 19 April, to organize its work and had decided to start where it had.
left off in Caracas. For the'time being, it proposed to hold informal meetings on
agenda items 12, 13,and'14. Short formal meetings would be held for the submission
of new draft articles on some of the issues' under consideration, particularly during
the current week. In addition to its formal and informal meetings, the Committee was
contemplating the use of other methods: meetings of groups with common interests,
regional groups 6r any other meetings within the framework of the-Committee which
might serve a useful purpose. He might himself take the initiative in negotiation
with the object of 'securing agreement on the important matters under consideration.
Informal meetings had been held on agenda item 12, relating to marine pollution and
the Global Environmental Monitoring System, on which the United'Nations Environment
Programme had submitted a very interesting paper. It was likely that further important
draft articles on measures against marine pollution would.be submitted. With regard
to agenda items 13 and 14 (scientific research, and the development and transfer of
technology), the Committee was continuing the. work begun at Caracus; a new and
important document on marine technology prepared by the Secretariat would undoubtedly
stimulate a more thorough examination of the question of the transfer of technology.
In conclusion, he said that work was proceeding through negotiations, discussion
groups and informal meetings of the Committee. As matters stood, what was important
was the negotiations themselves; to spend a great deal of time on the choice of
words - a task which should be left to the Drafting Committee - would be ill-advised.
The CHAIRMAN reminded the General Committee that all groups had been,
requested to inform the Chairman of their respective Committees as soon as possible
of the results of their consultations. He thought that it would be better to wait
until the end of the third week before holding a plenary meeting to assess theprogress
of the work and he proposed that the next plenary meeting should be on 7 April, on
which day the General Committee would also meet. The next meeting of the
General Committee, however, would be on Tuesday, 1 April.
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Mrs EERS (Chile) said that it would be wise to defer the assessment of the
results of the negotiations for a week; he was not sure that they had really begun,
at any rate at the Committee level. The work of the three Main Committees was closely
linked from the political point of view, and the methods of co-ardination between them
should be reviewed. At its next meeting the Committee should examine the methods of
negotiation and co-ordination before proceeding, during the following week, to assess
the results.
The CHAIRMAN agreed that the time had come to negotiate small groups, since
large groups were not well suited to that type of activity. It was for the Chairmen
of the three Main Committees to co-ordinate the results of the individual groups'
negotiations. He would meet them in the course of the week, and he hoped that it
would be possible to submit specific proposals to the next meeting of the
General Committee.
The meeting rose at 1O.45 a.m.
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