JOINT FISHING VENTURES-NW AFRICA

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2002
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• Publication Date: August 28, 1974
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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10 A LOW PROLA ION OF JOINT FISHING VENTURES
WITH NORTHWEST AFRICAN COASTAL COUNTRIES HAS BE-
COME A DELUGE DURING THIS CALENDAR YEAR, FROM PRESS
RELEASES, AND OTHER COMMUNICATION MEDIA THERE HAS
BEEN ANNOUNCED THAT APPROXIMATELY 31 JOINT VENTURES
ARE TETHER UNDER DISCUSSION OR ALREADY CONSUMATED
WITH FOUR NW AFRICAN NATIONS, BECAUSE OF THE CON-
FIDENTIALITY OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS IT IS POSSIBLE
THE NUMBER OF JOINT VENTURES ULD B GI+ ATER
OUR CO ES ARE OROCC , UR T
FISH LAST YEAR BUT CONSIDERS ITSELF AN UNDERVELOPED
NATION IN RELATION TO ITS OFFSHORE RESOURCES,
MAURITANIA'S OWN FISHERIES ARE MINISCULE, BUT THE LACK
OF AN INTERNAL INFRASTRUCTURE IS SLOWLY BEING REMEDIED
THROUGH LOANS FROM INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND THE
TALENT AND MATERIAL PROVIDED THROUGHT JOINT VENTURES,
SEGEGAL IS QUITE PROUD OF THE STEADY CLIMB IN ITS OWN
FISH PRODUCTION TO 250,000 TONS/YEAR, BUT ALSO REALIZES
ITS POTENTIAL IS MUCH GREATER, GAMBIA'S ARTISINAL
FISHERY IS SLOWLY EXPANDING BUT IT HAS NOT HAD ANY IN-
DUSTRIAL FISHERY UNTIL FOREIGN FISHING COMPANIES MOVED
INTO THE COUNTRY IN RECENT YEARS, THOUGH IT HAS .A
SMALL COASTLINE ITS KNOWN OFFSHORE RESORCES HAVE NOT
BEEN EXPLOITED TO GAMBIA'S BENEFIT,
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3, TWO COUNTRIES F CE AND SP IA N. NAVE BEEN WORKING
THE REGION FROM LOCAL SES FOB MANY YEARS AND
_JAPA S HAD NEGOTIATED AGREEMENTS WITH MAURITANIA FOR
-STVSRAL YEARS, HOWEVER, THE RECENT UNILATERAL EXPAN-
SIONS OF FISHING ZONES HAS CURTAILED THE FISHING
ACTIVITIES OF THE LARGE FOREIGN FLEET WITH HAS BEEN
BUILDING UP FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS IN THE CANARY
ISLANDS, THIS FACT HAS STIMULATED THEIR INTEREST TO
FORM JOINT VENTURES SO THEY CCAN CONTINUE WORKING IN
THIS RICH AREA, SOME OF THE LARGER UNITS OF THIS FLEET
HAVE BEEN FORCED TO FISH OFF ANGOLA AND SOUTH AFRICA TO
KEEP THE VESSELS OCCUPIED, ALTHOUGH THE EXTRA TIME IN-
VOLVED TO GO TO SW AFRICA FROM NW AFRICA AND RETURN IS
A DETRACTANT, COUNTRIES FROM CENTRAL WEST AFRICA ARE
ALSO ANXIOUS TO FISH IN THIS AREA BECAUSE DEMAND FOR
FISH IS INCREASING IN THEIR COUNTRIES WHILE THEIR RE-
SOURCES ARE BEING DEPLETED FROM OVERFISHING. FURTHER
INCENTIVE WAS PROVIDED DURING THE MARCH 1974. CECAF
SUB-COMMITTEE MEETING IN DAKAR, SENEGAL WHEN REPRE-
SENTATIVES OF THE NW AFRICAN COUNTRIES EMPHASIZED THEIR
INTEREST IN FORMING JOINT VENTURES,
4. JOINT FISHING VENTURES ARE ALREADY NEGOTIATED OR
UNDER DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:
MOROCCO, R i CT1thi, CANADA, F44;aC JAPAN, KUWAIT,
SOUTH KOREA, SPAIN, U.S,, USSR
MAURITANIA: ALGERIA, BULGARIA, CUBA, FRANCE,
GHANA, GREECE, IVORY COAST, JAPAN
NIGERIA, NOY_,_ROMANIA, SPAIN,
SWEDEN, USSR
SENEGAL: -GHANA, IVORY COAST, NIGERIA, USSR
GAMBIA: GHANA, JAPAN, USSR SMITH
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1, DEPT AGREES TH U AND LAMA ARTICLES ARE
OBJECTIONABLE AND _ LANGUAGE OF BOTH DRAFT
ARTICLES IS IMPRECISE, RHETORICAL AND INAPPROPRIATE FOR
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION HAVING FAR-REACHING AND
ENDURING LEGAL IMPORTANCE,
2, WHILE SOME STATES MIGHT ARGUE THAT TUNISIAN AND
LA DRAFT ARTICLES PERTAIN TO GUAM, AMERICAN SAMOA,
VIRGIN ISLANDS (WHICH ARE ON COMMITTEE OF 241S LIST OF
NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES), AND PUERTO RICO (NOT.
ON LIST). WE CONSIDER OUR TERRITORIES PART OF U.S. AND
NOT UNDER "COLONIAL DOMINATION, RACIST REGIME OR FOREIGN
OCCUPATION." IT IS OBVIOUS, NONETHELESS, THAT ADOPTION
OF DRAFT ARTICLES COULD INVOLVE US IN DISPUTES AS TO
THEIR APPLICABILITY TO OUR TERITORIES,
3, PUERTO RICAN PEOPLE EXERCISED THEIR RIGHT OF SELF-
DETERMINATION BY ADOPTING A CONSTITUTION IN A REFERENDUM
OF MARCH 3,1952, PROVIDING FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A
COMMONWEALTH OF PUERTO RICO FREELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE
UNITED STATES, IN ITS EIGHTH SESSION UNGA ADOPTED
RESOLUTION 748 RECOGNIZING THAT PUERTO RICO HAD EXERCISED
SELF-DETRMINATION AND HAD ACHIEVED SELF-GOVERNMENT, AND
ACCORDINGLY PUERTO RICO WAS TAKEN OFF COMMITTEE OF 24'S
LIST. GA REAFFIRMED DECI$I.ON BY REFUSING IN 1971 TO
PLACE QUESTION OF PUERTO RICO ON AGENDA. PEOPLE OF PUERTO
RICO REPEATEDLY HAVE REAFFIRMED IN FREE ELECTIONS DEC-
ISION TO ESTABLISH COMMONWEALTH RELATIONSHIP WITH U.S.
FYI: AT CUBA'S INITIATIVE COMMITTEE OF 24 DISCUSSED
PUERTO RICO IN 1972 AND 1073 DESPITE OUR STRONG OBJECTION
THAT IT INAPPROPRIATE FOR COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER.
TERRITORY WHICH UNGA DECLARED SELF-GOVERNING SELF-GOVERNING IN RESOLD -
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TION 748 AND WHICH ACCORDINGLY NOT ON COMMITTEE'S LIST
OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES, END FYI.
4, MALAGASY PROPOSAL, WHICH APPARENTLY ADVANCED TO
SATISFY UKDEL ARGUMENTS, IS ALSO OBJECTIONABLE. MALAGASY
PROPOSAL PROVIDES EXEMPTION ONLY FOR NON-INDEPENDENT
TERRITORIES WHICH ARE ON COMMITTEE OF 24 LIST OF NON-
SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES (I.E.. UNDER SCRUTINY OF
COMMITTEE OF 24) AND THUS IMPLIES ERRONEOUSLY, IN OUR
VIEW, THAT INDEPENDENCE ONLY LEGITIMATE OPTION.FOR
TERRITORIES ON LIST.. IT IS OUR VIEW THAT TERRITORIES
WHICH DO NOT HAVE DESIRE FOR INDEPENDENCE, MAY ELECT
(IN ACT OF SELF-DETERMINATION, AS DID PUERTO RICO) SELF-
GOVERNING STATUS IN ASSOCIATION WITH INDEPENDENT STATE,
AND THUS MERIT REMOVAL FROM LIST OF NON-SELF-/89;34,8.,8
5344859483, UNDER MALAGASY PROPOSAL, IT APPEARS THAT
A TERRITORY OPTING AS DID PUERTO RICO WOULD BE DENIED.
BENEFITS OF LOS TREATY.
5, USDEL SHOULD WORK ENERGETICALLY AGAINST TUNISIAN
AND LA DRAFT ARTICLES, DELEGATION MAY WISH TO POINT
OUT IN ITS REPRESENTATIONS THAT: A) "COLONIAL DOMIN-
ATION" AND "RACIST REGIME" ARE AMBIGUOUS POLITICAL TERMS
WHICH WILL CERTAINLY BE INTERPRETED DIFFERENTLY BY
DIFFERENT PART"ES, THIS CAN ONLY LEAD TO DISSENSION IN
IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY LOS TREATY; B) THE BASIC THRUST
OF THE TUNISIAN AND LA DRAFTS IS TO DENY TO LOCAL
INHABITANTS THE BENEFITS OF LOS TREATY, (I.E ? THE
PROPOSALS WOULD HURT THE INHABITANTS OF THE TERRITORIES
MORE THAT THE "COLONIAL" POWER ADMINISTERING THEM);
C) PROHIBITING AN AREA FROM ENJOYING THE RIGHTS UNDER
AN LOS TREATY WHILE IMPLYING IT MUST NONETHELESS FULFILL
OBLIGATIONS THEREUNDER IS APT TO UNDERMINE THE MEAN-
INGFULLNESS OF AN LOS TREATY ALTERNATIVELY, IF THIS
PROPOSAL PLACES SUCH AREAS ENTIRELY OUTSIDE AN LOS
TREATY THIS SERIOUSLY UNDERCUTS THE UNIVERSALITY WHICH
ALL STATES REALIZE IS NECESSARY FOR AN EFFECTIVE LOS
TREATY; D) EXCLUSION OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES
FROM PROVISIONS OF LOS TREATY COULD CAUSE COMPLI-
CATIONS AND CONFLICTS WITH NEIGHBORING STATES IF AND.
WHEN.THE STATUS OF SUCH TERRITORIES BECAME ALTERED.
6, TERRITORIES ON LIST OF NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES
C O N F I D E N T I A L
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POR PROPOSING APPARENT SHIFT IN TACTICS FROM LOW KEY
POSTURER WHICH IS AUTHORIZED BY NSDM.2609 PRESENTATION
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.LIKELY TO RESULT IN WIDESPREAD IDENTIFICATION OF PROPOSAL
AS UaS9 PROPOSALa WITH RESULTING DIMUNITION OF "HONEST
BROKER" NEGOTIATING ROLE. WE WOULD ALSO BE INTERESTED
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OBJECTIVES IN THE NEGOTIATIONS.
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