TALKING POINTS ON LAW OF THE SEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00401R002800020038-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 23
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 12, 2001
• Sequence Number: 38
• Publication Date: August 17, 1978
• Content Type: NOTES

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TALKING POINTS ON LAW OF THE SEA
I. LOS Conference - going on since '74 - resumes in New York 21 August
for 4 weeks
(May 78 II. Status - hodge podge -
Terr. Sea Claims
Map) 14 200-mile territorial sea LA/AF - Brown
10 13-199 - AF - Dark Tan
Mainly 12's - Green
30 - 3 - Yellow
III. Intelligence suggests bulk of participants still want a treaty
although some growing impatient with negotiating pace & cost - from
COMINT & other no indication of any country thinking of walking out
(Shipping Lanes A. One - straits - 11 of them
Ma p)
Maritime powers still see treaty as best way to contain unilateral
coastal state expanded jurisdiction claims that threaten freedom
of navigation, especially narrow Straits
-Reluctant to expend political capital protesting individual
expansions
(Manganese
Nodule Graphic)
Three concur deep sea mining outside 200 miles - Nodules outside
Developing nations still desire to tailor deep sea bed mining to
NIEO & this will keep them playing & pitted against those with
technical competence to mine
-Will continue to play hard though
1. Looking for $
2. Recognize that this treaty would be binding unlike many
N-S conference measures
Plenipotentiary conference vice UNCTAD, etc.
Precedent - wealth redistribution
C. Soviets will straddle some issues
-Agree with us on freedom of navigation
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(Broad Margins) D. One - continental margins
1 Sharing revenues? vs. land locked fishing within 200
V. Long-term implications
(200-mile Color globe changing
Claims Expansion Map)
35% oceans within 200 miles
Like dividing up West
Soon - tax
Property disputes
Pollution controls
UN authority over rest -
Deep sea authority
VI. Prognosis
A. Intelligence indicates considerable emotion behind
B. Intelligence "common heritage of mankind" concept -
Unilateral action unpopular
-Condemned by many nations
-Might well be challenged by LOC counter-treaty or legal
actions
-Could cause retaliation against corporations
C. No agreement - Hopefully 1980
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 Greenland
(Den.)
Dominican Republic
Haiti. 1
(U.S) Barbados
Grenada
"Trinidad and Tobago
Guinea
Bissau
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Y~beri
r-1
Sao Tome and Principe
in Nautical Miles
s than 12 13 to 199
200
* Maldives,
1. Argentina,
2. Lebanon -
lippines, Tonga - Modified archipelago claim
Uruguay -Overflight and navigation permitted beyond 12 nm
ilo legislation
3 Turkey-12
nm in Black Sea
I he Untied States Government has not recognized the
Latvia. and Lithuania into the
Inrnrperallon of Estonia
4 Japan - Te
. al sea remains 3 nm in 5 "international straits"
,
Soviet Um- Names and boundary representation
5. Tonga-12
m for Minerva Reef
art' not nec essariiy authnntatrve
6. Fiji-Arc hip
lago claim, 1978
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Z N. Korea
S. Korea
Philippines'
Papua
New Guinea
ndonesia
New
Zealand
Western
Samoa.
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Dover
17.5
2
The Sound
2.1
3
Great Belt
4.1
4
Gibraltar
7.6
5
Dardanelles
750 yards
6
Tiran
3.1
7
Bab al Mandeb
9.4
8
Hormuz
20.6
9
Malacca
8.3
10
Western Korea
23.0
11
Eastern Korea
26.5
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Denmark
Narrowest Width
(nautical miles)
175
21
4.1
7 6
750 yards
3.1
94
20.6
83
23 0
26 5
\0 6
Djibouti
Ye Z
Saudi
Arabia
Names, rd nr,urul;nr mpu,e ~~.um
,I I1,11,ec
Selected World Shipping Lanes and St
S
Korea
10(b 11
Malaysia
0.
Selected shipping lane
0 Selected Strait
200 nautical mile maritime zone
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 Global Distribution of Manganese Nodules
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h~~~,m,a bus-I
. YJasF nao%f.
see enlargement below ?
a asn. US da
covered by nodules
? 75-100
? 50-75
25-50
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The United States Government has not recognized the
incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the
Soviet Union. Names and boundary representation
are not necessarily authoritative
Due to d
the limits
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 within 200 nautical miles
beyond 200 nautical miles
- 200 nautical mile limit
fferences in definitions of the edge of the margin,
shown on this map should be considered illustrative.
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1977 (mid-year)
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Expansion
1970
1978 (May)
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Palmy (U.S.)
Cool
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(N.LT:
K.)
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Turks and Caicos Island
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V.ir in I lands(U.K.)
Islands,
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Rico Gua eloupe(Fr.)
Guate fl- W S) Marti ique (FrJ
Nicara a Grenada.
Iv X Bar ados
Isla San F
(Chile
' Ber uda
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(U K)
nican Republic
Azores
PonI
MadelraAlslands
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ale Trom
The United States Government has not recognized the
incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the
Soviet Union. Names and boundary representation
are not necessarily authoritative
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Japa
'Jam (Fr)
'as) (Fr
Mar ana
Isl ds
U..)
Gu 1U.S.(
'tylC~,uinea
Territorial sea
No 200 nautical mile claim
'Modified archipelago claim
r
mi-tori Shima
(Japan)
John ton?
(U.
How nd
Bak ( .S.). USGilbert
. ,Islan
Nl~lands
dU.Kailis and Futuna ? ~_ ,
(Fr.) American
Samoa
(U.S.)
New (NL)
Caledonia
(Fri
Zealand
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I M,
DIRECTOR
OF
CENTRAL
INTELLIGENCE
Law of the Sea Issues
A Presidential Briefing
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1 Dover
2 The Sound
3 Great Belt
4 Gibraltar
5 Dardanelles
6 Tiran
7 Bab al Mandeb
8 Hormuz
9 Malacca
10 Western Korea
11 Eastern Korea
17.5
2.1
4.1
7.6
750 yards
3.1
9.4
20.6
8.3
23.0
26.5
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The United States Government has not recognized the
incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania into the
Soviet Union. Names and boundary representation
are not necessarily authoritative
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Width of Zone
in Nautical Miles
6-10
12
15-30
50-100
States Requiring Prior Notification of Warships Entering Territorial Seas, May 1978
Denmark
G.Q.R.
Bulgaria _
ea.geoc?e &
India
IP,
Claimed Territorial Sea
in Nautical Miles
'93784 5-78
The Unned Siaaes Gwernman h s na ~emprvied th
oapaitim. of Estonia L4 w Ethan. xno Ih
Sor,ei un,m. Nimes end hounEry repe.einaan
are nrn -& ssa,Iy suthor,Ia,.e.
Sudan~( Somalia
12
15
30
200
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Un,ted
Kingdom
Ireland N=ih Poland
Portugal P, ain
RG
Monaco
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