EC COMMISSION COMMUNICATION TO THE COUNCIL ON THE THIRD UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON THE LAW OF THE SEA

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82S00697R000400150003-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 2, 2005
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: June 16, 1976
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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To : Department of State
INFO: BONN, BRUSSELS, COPENHAGEN, DUBLIN, THE HAGUE, LONDON,
LUXEMBOURG, PARIS, ROME, US MISSION UN NEW YORK
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PROM : US Mission. EC Brussels DATE: June 16, 1976
SUBJECT : EC Commission Communication to the Council on the Third
United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
REF EC Brussels 5735
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Enclosed with this airgram is a position p per on the Law of the
Sea (LOS) which the EC Commission has transmitted to the Council.
It recommends that the Council adopt a decision authorizing the
Commission, in consultation with the Member States, to enter
into negotiations at the Third UN Conference on the LOS with
the view of having a clause inserted into the LOS'Convention
enabling the EEC- to become a contracting party to the
Convention.
The Commission recommends that the Council adopt Commission
proposals that the Community inform the LOS Conference that in
? the areas of the LOS convention for which the Community is
:,competent, the Community has adopted and will present joint
positions. The Commission also proposes that
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.he Member Statesand the Commission should attempt to adopt a
oordinated position and should determine when difficulties
hould be notified to the Community institutions in Brussels
a-he bulk of the Commission paper consists of substantive positions
* the main issue of the Conference for which the Commission
requests Council approval. These were summarized in the reftel
on the basis of a comprehensive briefing by Gallagher, Commission
Deputy Director for External Relations, and are summarized in
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