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United Nations Third Conference on the Law of the Sea: Explanatory Memorandum on the Informal Composite Negotiating Text*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2017

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International Legal Materials , Volume 16 , Issue 5 , September 1977 , pp. 1099 - 1108
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1977

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[Reproduced from U.N. Document A/CONF.62/WP.10/Add.1 of July 22, 1977.

[The text of the Informal Composite Negotiating Text from the Sixth Session (May 23-June 15, 1977) appears at I.L.M. page 1108. On July 20, 1977, the U.S. Representative to the Law of the Sea Conference made a statement that began: "The Informal Composite Negotiating Text resulting from this session of the U.N. Law of the Sea Conference evidences real progress on vital issues relating to international security and freedom of navigation. At the same time it substantially set back prospects for agreement on an international regime for the conduct of seabed mining. Both the substance of the text on this issue and the lack of fair and open processes in its final preparation require me to recommend that the United States undertake a most serious and searching review of both the substance and procedures of the Conference." The reasoning behind the statement is contained in Press Release USUN-57(77) which appears in the Department of State Bulletin, Vol. 77, No. 1995 (September 19, 1977), pp. 389-91.]

References

1/ Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on t h e Law of the Sea, vol. V (Sales Ho. E.76.V.6) document A/COMF.62/WP.8/Rev.l, parts I, II and I I I .

2/ I b i d . , vol. VI (Sales Ho. E.77.V.-2) document A/C0HF.62/WF.9/Rev.2.