LOS: PACEM IN MARIBUS CONFERENCE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82S00697R000300080004-5
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• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 10, 2002
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 13, 1974
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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THE OCEANS); STU MCINTYRE OF D/LOS AT STATE DEPT (WHO DESCRIBED
~N OF ECONOMIC 20NE AND COUNTERED AS NECESSARY
POSITIONS ADVANCED ON OTHER ISSUED,BY OHTER PARTICIPANTS WHEN
THOSE POSITIONS WERE AT VARIANCE WITH U.S. POLICY, E.G.,
MYRDAL'S DISARMAMENT COMMENTS); AND AMBASSADOR J'. DJALAL OF
ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY
DR. J,S. WARIOBA OF TANZANIA (WHO JUSTIFIED 200-MILE ZONE
PRIMARILY AS A MEANS WHEREBY THE LDCS COULD KEEP SOME PORTION
OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS OUT OF THE GRASP OF THE TECHNOLOGICALLY
ADVANCED COUNTRIES, AND ATTACKED LORD RITCHIE-CALER OF U.K,
FOR LATTER'S CRITICISM OF THE ONE AS A STEP BACKWARD FOR THE
LDCS)1 MRS. A MYRDAL OF SWE EN (WHO tlA,I.VOC,-r,EmD P b--I6LLI.O_N .O '
ALL MISSILE "TE "INU OVE H G SEAS, ALL NATIONAL MILITARY
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BEYOND 200 MILES WOULD BE THE PRIMARY STIMULUS TO THE NEW RACE);
OVER SUCH AN ISSUED AS WHETHER A 200-MILE ECONOMIC ZONE IS
.DESIRABLE OR NOT,
3o PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS INCLUDED ARVID PARDO (WHO THOUGHT A
200-MILE ZONE WOULD. BE MERELY THE BEGINNING LINE FOR A NEW
RACE TO GRAB ADDITIONAL OCEAN SPACE, AND EXTENDING COASTAL
STATE AUTHORITY TO ANY PORTION OF THE CONTINENTAL MARGIN
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SUBJ; LOSE P M N MARIBS CANFERENCE:~.~
1, AS-TN"T'AATT~~YE RS, AC'1 ~gp IN MARIBUS DISCUSSED VARIOUS LOS
ISSUES AND SOUGHT TO INFLUENCE U,N. LOS CONFERENCE. FOCUS THIS
YEAR WAS ON ECONOMIC ZONE AND PROSPECTS FOR ARMS CONTROL IN THE
OCEANS.
2, PACEM IN MARIBUS WAS LESS WELL ATTENDED THIS YEAR THAN IN
PREVIOUS YEARS. THERE WERE FEW NEW INSIGHTS AND THE GATHERING
WAS UNENTHUSIASTIC. MANY PARTICIPANTS FELT THAT THEIR EARLIER
ROLE (AS THEY SAW IT) OF LEADING THE THINKING IN THE FIELD WAS
OVERTAKEN BY THE REALITIES OF THE U.N, CONFERNCE AND THERE IS
LITTLE THEY CAN DO TO AFFECT ITS OUTCOME, SPLITS SEEMED TO
DEVELOP EVEN AMONG THE SPONSORS (ELIZABETH MANN BORGESE ET AL)
E, O. 11652: N/A
TAGS= PLOS, MT
UNCLAS VALLETTA 1493
State Dept. review completed
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INDONESIA (WHO UNDERSCORED NEED TO RECOGNIZE ARCHIPELAGOS,
WELCOMED THE REDUCTION OF THE AREA OF THE HIGH SEAS CAUSED BY
THE 200-MILE ZONE SINCE THIS WOULD LIMIT THE GREAT POWERS WHO
ARE THE PRIME BENEFICIARIES OF THE HIGH SEAS, AND CRITICIZED
MCINTYRE+S MENTION OF NECESSITY`OF UNIMPEDED TRANSIT OF INTER-
NATIONAL STRAIT$),.LATTER COMMENT OF DJALAL PRODUCED
REBUTTAL BY MCIN'T,YRE. FRANK LAQUE (U.S. DEPT OF COMMERCE)
AND GOK SLAKE (NSF) MADE USEFUL INTERVENTIONS ON SEABED
RESOURCE SUBJECTS,
4, THE PACEM IN MARIBUS SPONSORS ARE ATTEMPTING TO DRAW UP
SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE SENT TO THE LOS CONFERENCE, IF
THE PAST IS A GUIDE, THEY WILL SUCCEED IN GETTING THEIR
DRAFT THOUGH PACEM IN MARIBUS WITH ONLY MINOR MODIFICATIONS
AND'WITHOUT NOTING THE DISSENTERS IN THE DOCUMENT. THE
INFLUDENCE OF THE ANNUAL RECOMMENDTIONS ON THE U.S. SEABED
COMMITTEE OR THE U.N. CONFERENCE ON LOS HAS NOT
BEEN SUBSTANTIAL IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THIS YEAR THE EFFECT
OF THEM IS LIKELY TO BE EVEN LESS THAN USUAL, NEVERTHELESS,
IT IS USEFUL TO.HAVE USG PARTICIPANTS CONTRIBUTE TO THE
PACEM IN MARIBUS DISSCU~SIONS AND TO CLARIFY AND DEFEND.
U,S. POSITIONS WHEN NEEDED. WIGGINS
ADMIN INTERNAL USE ONLY
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