LAW OF THE SEA

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CIA-RDP82S00697R000400170016-1
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December 12, 2016
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June 26, 2002
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16
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July 6, 1976
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TELEGRAM
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FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/76 - Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S00697R0004 0170,016- r CF`LE SEC DISSEM BY, !t 6) PER ._. TOTAL COPIES l~J BY R 0613131 JUL 76 C O N F I D E N T I A L 25X1 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIF. 1VV ur0rn6r 1110.4101`0-1 TO AMEMM ASSY TEL AVIV TO RUE Hr ISECSTATE WASHDC 2156 INFO RUEHBAC/AMEMBASSY CANBERRA 26 RUTADR/AMEMBASSY DAKAR 41 ~...~ RUESLM/AMEMBASSY LIMA 27 ?) RUCMNI/AMEMBASSY NAIROBI 126 RUEHOT/AMEMBASSY OTTAWA 67 RUESNA/AMEMBASSY SANTIAGO 38 BT C O N F I D E N T I A L TEL AVIV 4640 FROM OXMAN E.O. 11652; GDS F TAGS 1. PL OS SUBJECT, LAW OF THE SEA 1, SUMMARY. THIS CABLE CONTAINS SUMMARIES OF VARIOUS CONVERSATIONS IN GENEVA AND KUALA LUMPUR NOT OTHERWISE REPORTED ON NEXT SESSION OF LOS CONFERENCE, IT INCLUDES MEETING WITH SELECTED MEMBERS OF COASTAL STATE GROUP IN GENEVA (CANADA, CHILE, SRI LANKA, PERU, NORWAY, KENYA, AUSTRALIA) # AND BILATERAL DISCUSSIONS WITH CANADA (BEESLEY ), CHILE (ZEGERS), SENEGAL (CISSE), SECRETARIAT (EULETA), AND OTHERS IN KUALA LUMPUR, END SUMMARY. 2, CONFERENCE PROCEDURES, IT APPEARS COASTAL STATE GROUP DESIRES TO AVOID ITEMIZED VOTING, BUT TO PUSH COMMITTEE 2 (AND POSSIBLY 3), TEXTS AT LEAST TO FORMALIZATION BY END OF SUMMER SESSION IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT HAPPENS IN COMMITTEE 1. PACKAGE VOTE IN COMMITTEE 2 IS THUS POSSIBLE. BEESLEY BROACHED POSSIBILITY OF SEPARATING COMMITTEE 1, BUT OTHERS FELT THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE, AND BEESLEY AGREED. ZULETA IS HOSTILE TO IDEA OF INDICATIVE VOTING, AND FEELS IT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH RULES OF PROCEDURE, SO IDEA WAS PROPOSED AND DROPPED WHEN RULES WERE DEBATED, THERE IS WIDESPREAD VIEW THAT SOME SORT OF GROUP MUST TAKE CONTROL IN COMMITTEE 1, BUT ZULETA WARNS VERY STRONGLY AGAINST OPEN FORMATION OF A CORE GROUP, EVEN IF OTHERS PERMITTED TO ATTEND: "CORRIDOR NEGOTIATION" WILL TAKE PLACE, BUT "EVERYONE WHO COUNTS HAS CAUGHT ON TO YOUR GAME LAST TIME, AND IT CANNOT BE REPEATED." EULETA IS PROMOTING IDEA OF BREAKING UP WORK IN COMMITTEE State Dept. review completed C 0 N F I D E N T I A L Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1 PERSON/UNIT NOTIFIED T 052687 E I A 2 9 2 C O N F I D E N T I A L T O'R: 06 20 4222 JU L 76 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIB STATE ME SS AC- 11 IN FORM UNDER ENGO' INTO LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ISSUES; HE SUGGESTS LAUTERPACHT (AUSTRALIA) HANDLE THE FORMER, WITH RESPECT TO THE LATTER, HE IS PROMOTING KASEMSRI (THAILAND)' SAYS KOEEMI (IRAN) WOULD BE EXCELLENT IF HE COULD DO IT, AND IS ALSO CONSIDERING VORAH (MALAYSIA). HE-FEELS ENGO WILL "NOT' ACCEPT P T0, AND THE AFRICANS WILL NOT A C~ A LATIN, H R IS CONSIDERABLE FINAL SESSION IN EARLY 1977) POSSIBLY LIMITED TO FINISHING UP COMMITTEE 1; HOWEVER, ASIDE FROM INDIA, THERE IS NO INDICATION OF STALLING, FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/76 ; ttt1` AUSTRALIA AND SENEGAL AWARE OF We ~, ___ .FELT CANADIAN E ON ARTICLE 9, CISSE 'S SHOULD JQG TA (INDIA) L57 ATTACK IN KUALA HELP GANADA , MP R AGAINST ARTICLE 22 (PARALLEL SYSTEM OF EXPLDITA- ION). ALTHOUGH HE IS TYPICALLY PREACHING MODERATIO AND COMING UP WITH "COMPROMISES" THAT ARE EXTREME. AGOTA WAS JOINED BY VANDUPUYE (GHANA), KOEEMI (IRAN)' __"j NC 36553 AND YUSUF (IN A HOWEVER, DISCUSSION WAS CONFUSED BY AALCC SECRETARIAT READING OF ARTICLE 22 AS ESTABLISH- ING 3 RATHER THAN 2 SYSTEMS OF EXPLOITATION, WITH MUCH DEBATE CENTERED ON CLARIFYING THAT ISSUE. (THIS MAY HAVE HAD FORTUITOUS EFFECT OF FOCUSSING ATTENTION ON PUNCTUATION CHANGES IN ARTICLE 22 TO ACHIEVE INTENDED RESULT). ,A.ME GROUP ATTACKED FREE PROSP CT NG REGIME, DESPITE LAUTERPACHT'S ATTEMPT TO POINT T THAT ANNEX 1, PA RA 121 MEETS CONCERNS IN THIS REGARD. (IT ALSO APPEARS THAT JAGOTA IS RUNNING FOR THE ILC THIS FALL, AND MAY BE ATTEMPTING TO UNDERCUT PINTO (WHO IS SEEKING REELECTION) WITH THE AFRICANS BY ASSOCIATING HIM WITH THE REVISED SNT AND COMPROMISES WITH US. AT THE LEAST, THE SRI LANKAN REPRESENTATIVE SEEMED WORRIED, AND WARNED THAT JAGOTA'S REAL EFFORT MAY BE TO STIMULATE US AND INDUSTRIALIZED STATES T O SURFACE I N PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FOR PINTO,) EULETA, IN PRIVATE CONVER- SATION WITH OX MA N, SHARPLY ATTACKED US PROPOSAL ON FINANCIAL ARRANGEMENTS AS AN UNHEARD-OF-WINDFALL FOR COMPANIES; HE PARTICULARLY ATTACKED COMPUTATION OF RETURN ON INVEST- MENT FOR FULL LIFE OF CONTRACT ON BASIS OF ORIGINAL RATHER THAN DEPRECIATED INVESTMENT. APPARENTLY HIS DAUGHTER, NOW AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK, STIMULATED THIS VIEW, LAUTERPACHT ARTFULLY PUSHING C O N F I D E N T I A L DE Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1 FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/76 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1 C O N F I D E N T I A L T 052887 EIA292 PAGE 03 NC 36553 TO'R'; 062042E JUL. 76 ARGUMENTS FOR ARBITRATION FOR CI DISPUTES WITHOUT SAYING THIS IS HIS VIEW, 4, HIGH SEAS STATUS OF ECONOMIC ZONE. MOST DELEGATIONS LISTENING TO US ARGUMENTS WITHOUT COMMENT, BEESLEY SPECIFICALLY STATED THAT CANADA AND US HAVE OPPOSITE POSITIONS ON THE ISSUE, BUT TOWARD END OF CONVERSATION SEEMED TO BE SEARCHING FOR COMPROMISE FORMULA. ATTORNEY GEN, KADIR OF MALAYSIA SAID HE AGREED WITH OUR ARGU- MENTS. EEGERS OF CHILE STILL DIFFICULT ON ISSUE. NORWAY (VI NDENESS) TRYING TO HELP. 5, SC IENT IF IC RESEARCH. MOST INTERLOCUTORS TAKEN ABACK BY EXTENT OF OUR CRITICISM OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TEXT, BUT ARE SAYING LITTLE, HOWEVER, AMBASSADOR ARIAS SCHREI BER OF PERU SAID I N FRONT OF OTHERS THAT IF" THAT I S THE US ATTITUDE, PERU WILL STOP ALL US SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH OFF ITS COAST. WE RETORTED THAT THIS IS PRE- CISELY OUR POINTS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SHOULD NOT BE STOPPED BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT THE FLAG STATE IS SAYING,. 6, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT; LEADING MEMBERS OF THE COASTAL STATE GROUP APPEAR READY T O ACCEPT CHILEAN IDEA THAT THERE WOULD BE C OM PU LS AR Y DISPUTE SETTLEMENT I N ECONOMIC ZONE FOR INTERFERENCE WITH NAVIGAT"ION, OVERFLIGHT. AND COMMUNICATION, AND FOR FAILURE TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL DUTIES, BUT NOT RPT NOT FOR FISHERIES. IT SEEMS KENYA (NJINGA) MAY BE READY TO GO ALONG WITH THIS, 71 ADDITIONAL COUNTRY COMMENTS: A, SENEGAL, CISSE TOLD AMBASSADOR LEARSON THAT SENEGAL'S O V E R R I D I N G INTEREST I S I N FISHERIES AND STRONG COASTAL STATE JURISDICTION, HE HOPES TO SPEND MORE TIME IN COMMITTEE 1, HOWEVER, B. CANADA, THERE IS NO RESPONSE YET ON STRAITS/ARCH- PELAGOES. DESPITE APPEARANCE OF REASONABLENESS, BEESLEY WAS DIFFICULT ON SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES. BEESLEY SUGGESTED POSSIBILITY OF BILATERAL MEETING IN NORTH AMERICA DURING. WEEK OF JULY 12. REQUEST DEPARTMENT CONTACT CANADIAN EMBASSY WITH INQUIRY, BUT WITHOUT SEEMING OVERLY EAGER, C. AUSTRALIA, LAUTERPACHT CLEARLY RELISHES IDEA OF MAJOR ROLE IN COMMITTEE 1- SINCE HE WAS "BORED BEING LEFT C O N F I D E N T I A L Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82S00697R000400170016-1 REPRODUCTION BY OTHER ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIB FORM 3020b 7-71 MFG. 2/76 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1 CABLE SEC DISSEM BY PER TOTAL COPIES RUN BY C O N F I D E N T I A L TO'R':062042E JUL 76 ON THE PERIPHERY '' HOWEVER, HE MUST BE AT THE HAGUE FROM AUGUST 5 TO 10, BUT MAY COME TO NY FOR FIRST 2 DAYS OF SESSION,. LAUTERPACHT DID NOT KNOW F LTAN DEMARCHE- IN WASHINGTO N ARTICLE 9 N PLOB u -AN.D A ED THA t~TERPRETATION THAT LIMITED LAND-BASED PRODUCT ION WAS IN T. LAUTERPACHT BRIEFED ON JAKAR A DISCUSSIONS, D, KENYA, NJENGA WAS MORE MODERATE ON ECONOMIC ZONE AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, HE IS PLANNING MORE ACTIVE ROLE IN COMMITTEE 1, TOON C? 0 N F I D E N T I A L REPRODUCTION BY OTHEF ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHI STATE MESSA NC 36553 Approved For Release 2002/08/21 : CIA-RDP82SO0697R000400170016-1