WESTERN EUROPE- CANADA- INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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Western Europe-Canada--
International Organizations
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No. 0325-75
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WESTERN EUROPE - CANADA - INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com-
munity by the Western Europe Division, Office of Current Intelligence, with
occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of
Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to
the authors of the individual articles.
Security Council Meets on UK-Iceland Fishing
Dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
French Left Sets Nationwide Protests for
December 18th . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
IEA Meets to Consider Long-Term Cooperation
Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
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Security Council Meets on UK-Iceland Fishing Dispute
The special session of the UN Security Council
requested by Iceland to hear its complaint against
British actions in the fisheries dispute was
low-key and devoid of polemics.
Prior to the Council meeting on December 16,
both the UK and Iceland had agreed to limit their
approach to a presentation of views. Iceland's
UN representative told the Security Council that
London's insistence on an excessive annual catch
had prevented the resumption of negotiations.
He recapitulated the incident at sea on December
11 in which an Icelandic patrol boat was rammed
by a British support ship inside Iceland's 12
mile limit.
The UK representative countered with Britain's
version of the ramming incident highlighting
the firing on Britain's unarmeds.vessel by the
Icelandic boat. He said that the UK's right
to fish inside Iceland's unilaterally declared
200-mile zone had been upheld by the International
Court of Justice. He concluded by citing London's
desire to resume negotiations at any time and
at any place.
Iceland's decision not to seek a Security
Council resolution condemning the ramming incident
as a violation of Icelandic sovereignty was the
result of some behind-the-scenes diploma.cy by
the UK. Britain successfully persuaded most of
the Security Council members, as well as the
Nordic countries, to urge Iceland to merely list
its position in the fishing dispute before the
Security Council.
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Iceland's desire not to antagonize the US
probably influenced the decision to make a low-
key approach to the UN. Reykjavik is aware that
US influence on London may be essential to an
eventual cod war settlement. At the same time,
the Icelandic government felt compelled to state
its case at the UN or face an almost certain
barrage of criticism by the opposition parties
at home.
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French Left Sets Nationwide Protests for December 18th
The French left opposition parties and the
two leftist trade union confederations--the country's
largest--have scheduled nationwide protest. marches
tomorrow. The action is directed against the government's
economic and social programs and its policy on unrest
in the military.
Similar marches earlier this month in Paris
and major provincial cities drew only 2-5,000 marchers.
The leftist protest will pick up an added appearance
of effectiveness tomorrow however, from a concurrent,
but unrelated, 24-hour strike by white collar workers
that could close or disrupt many offices and services.
Formal strikes have not been called by the
leftist organizations, but stoppages may occur in
some sectors where the demonstrations are not set
outside working hours. The left is being cautious
about calling for strikes because the workers have
been more inclined to heed concerns about endangering
their jobs than exhortations for strike actions.
Even the joint call for action was accompanied
by further revelations of the deep divisions that
plague the left. The small radical Socialist Union
Party walked out of the protest organization meeting
when the other participants refused to issue a statement
of support for the party. Socialist Union members
and officers have been detained and their offices
searched because of the party's alleged activity
in attempting to organize unions within the military.
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IEA Meets to Consider Long-Term Cooperation
Agreement
The International Energy Agency, comprising 18
industrialized consumer nations, will hold a meeting
in Paris on Friday to consider, and possibly approve
provisionally, a long-term cooperation program de-
signed to help reduce its members dependence on im-
ported oil. The program is an element in the
defense the industrialized states are trying to
mount against arbitrary oil-price increases and em-
bargos. As such, the program could form the founda-
tion of the industrialized countries' position in
the energy commission established by the Conference
on International Economic Cooperation in Paris this
week.
Last year the energy agency agreed to an emergency
oil-sharing program in an effort to insulate its
members from the effects of another oil embargo and
to convince Arab oil exporters of the futility of
another attempt. Since then, the members have made
significant progress in such areas as planning energy
research and development, and an information-sharing
system that permits member states to keep a close
eye on changes in oil markets. The terms of the
cooperation agreement were to have been settled last
July but the delicate balancing of responsibilities
and benefits has delayed agreement until now, and
may yet delay final approval another six months.
The program calls for coordinated national efforts
and cooperative programs designed to:
--promote the conservation of energy;
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--accelerate the development of alternatives
to imported energy through specific projects
and a mechanism to safeguard investments in
these projects;
--encourage technology for the more efficient
use and production of energy; and
--the elimination of barriers among member states
which would impede the realization of the
program's goals.
The most serious objections to the cooperation
agreement were at first directed against the provision
to safeguard investments in alternative energy sources.
The reservations came mostly from those states with
little or no indigenous energy sources. They are
reluctant to establish, for example, a guaranteed
price for oil, when oil might conceivably be offered
at lower prices in the event of a collapse of the
present oil market. Progress on this issue was made
earlier this month when the UK obtained an agreement
in principle from its EC partners to the concept
of safeguarding investments. France--the only EC
member not in the energy agency--nevertheless,
has not agreed to the details of the plan and the
EC partners may seek to delay final approval of the
energy agency's program until Paris is firmly committed
to an EC policy.
Another obstacle to agreement on Friday comes
from Canadian and Norwegian reservations to a commitment
not to discriminate against other members of the
energy agency in the sale of energy or in the opportunity
to invest in energy projects. Ottawa says that it
cannot allow the unrestricted export of oil from
Western Canada when Eastern Canada must import expensive
oil from the Middle East and Venezuela. Oslo's problem
appears less justified than the Canadian objection
and is rooted in the politically sensitive issue of
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control over Norway's oil reserves. Norway has already
been granted an exemption from the provisions of
the emergency oil-sharing program and many of the
energy agency's members are showing little patience
for another Norwegian request fo exceptional treatment.
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