SIG MEETING SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS

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June 25, 1982
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Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0 ACTION --.'-INFO ' DATE , INITIAL 5 1 DDt ; 61DDAr 7 DDQ 8 - ADDS&T. -1o. I GC. Compt' D/Pers Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0 8217908 June 25, 1982 TNCLASSIFIED With SECRET Attachment) Senior Interagency Group No. OVP Mrs. Nancy Bearg Dyke NSC Mr. Michael O. Wheeler CIA Commerce Mrs. Helen Robbins Defense COL John Stanford Energy Mr. William Vitale Interior Mr. Arthur Russell JCS MAJ Dennis Stanley Justice Mr. F. Henry Habicht Labor Mr. Robert Searby NSF Dr. Francis Johnson OMB Mr. William Schneider. Transportation Mrs. Katherine Anderson Treasury Mr. David Pickford UNA Amb. Harvey Feldman SUBJECT: SIG Meeting Summary of Conclusions . Attached is the Summary of Conclusions for the SIG Meeting on Law of the Sea held on June 24, 1982. State Dept. review completed. L. Paul Bremer, III Executive Secretary 1. Summary of Conclusions 2. List of Participants UNCLASSIFIED (With SECRET Attachment) (& /a/ Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914RO01000100004-0 DEPARTMENT OF STATE SECRET Senior Interagency Group No. 8 PARTICIPANTS: See List Attached DATE AND TIME: June 24, 1982, 11:30 a.m. PLACE: D Conference Room 7219, State Department SUBJECT: SIG Meeting on Law of the Sea, June 24 SUMMARY OF CONCLUSIONS June =25, 1982 The SIG convened to discuss agency views and recommendations on the issues presented in the Report to the President on Law of the Sea. Chairman Buckley introduced a draft summary. The paper was discussed line by line. A number of clarifications were agreed to, particularly with regard to Issue 5. It was the chair- man's view, supported by USUN and others, that both courtesy and tactics require some acknowledgement of the urgings of other gov- ernments, notwithstanding the SIG's negative assessment of their eventual use- fulness to U.S. objectives. Interior and others expressed reser- vations that in case such offers yielded only partial results when measured against the President's six objectives, the U.S. would suffer in meeting its objectives through an alternative seabed arrangement. All participating agencies agreed the U.S. should strengthen high-level efforts to persuade key allies to remain outside the-LOS convention and to participate with us in alterna- tive seabed mining arrangements. Responsibility for revising the paper was assigned to Mr. Guhin of the NSC and Mr. Salmon of State, with others invited to participate as well. Mr. Guhin announced that an NSC meeting on Law of the Sea was being considered for Tuesday, June 29. ACTION REQUIREMENTS 1. A drafting group was assigned to revise the paper accord- ing to the guidance developed in the SIG meeting. 2. The SIG undertook to circulate the revised paper for final interagency clearance. This was to be done the day of the SIG, with agency clearances requested the following day in time for the final paper to be conveyed to. the White House by COB Friday, June 25. SECRET RDS-3 6/2 /92 Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914RO01000100004-0 Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0 SIG Meeting on Law of the Sea June 24, 1982, 11:30 a.m. D Conference Room 7219, State Department PARTICIPANTS State JCS Justice Labor OPD Transportation Treasury tative Mr. Davis Robinson, L Mr. Lou Pugliaresi, S/P Mr. William Salmon, T Mr. Tain Tompkins, S/S-S Under Secretary James Buckley, Amb. James Malone, President's Mrs. Nancy Bearg Dyke Mr. Michael Guhin Mr. Hans Heymann Mr. William Schachte Mr. Hugh O'Neill Mr. Henry Thomas Mr. Stephen Griffith Mr. William Pendley Mr. Alex Holser ADM Bruce Harlow Mr. Alfred Regnery Mr. James Taylor Mr. Meyer Bernstein Dr. Francis Johnson Mr. Philip Dusault Mr. Robert Bauerlein Mr. Mike Uhlmann CDR James Ellis Mr. Robert Cornell Mr. Donald Crafts Amb. Harvey Feldman Chairman Represen- (Notetaker) Approved For Release 2008/08/14: CIA-RDP83M00914R001000100004-0