SECRETARYS SPEECH OF APRIL 8 ON LOS

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: April 16, 1976
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT; SECRETARY'S SPEECH FOR APRIL 8 ON LOS
REFS; (EAL STATE 08519 (B) KUALA LUMPUR 2163
SUMMARY'
STATE MESSAGE
FOREIGN MINISTRY SECRETARY GENERAL FAKARIA TOLD DCM
THAT INITIAL IMPRESSION OF GOM OFFICIALS IS THAT SECRETARY'S
APR, 8, LOS SPEECH IS POSITIVE AND A STEP FORWARD', HE DECLINED
FURTHER SUBSTANTIVE COMMENT ON GROUNDS GOM STILL STUDYING SPEECH,
ZAKARIA ALSO SAID HE FORESAW NO DIFFICULTY BETWEEN OUR TWO
COUNTRIES REGARDING
"PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENTS" FOR STRAITS, BUT
CAUTIONED THAT QUESTION OF "LEGAL REGIME" STILL IMP,
ZAKARIA SEEMED' TO BE TRYING TO NARROW IMPACT OF VERr",TORTHCOMING
STATEMENT MINISTER OF LAW KADIR HAD MADE BEFORE DEPARTURE FOR
LOS CONFERENCE, THUS SUGGESTING THERE MAY BE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
MIN FORN AFFAIRS AND KADIR, WE BELIEVE KADIR HAS CONSIDERABLE
FREEDOM OF ACTION AND RECOMMEND THAT OUR DELEGATION WORK ON HIM.
ZAKARIA ALSO QUESTIONED OUR POSITION ON ARCHIPELAGO ISSUE.
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1, IN ABSENCE OF AMBASSADOR, DCM DELIVERED COPY OF SECRETARY'S
APRIL 8
SPEECH TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS SECRETARY GENERAL ZAKARIA ON APRIL 16?
DRAWING ON REFTEL As UCM NOTED U.S. BELIEF THAT TIME RUNNING OUT'
AND ALL NATIONS MUST MAKE SPECIAL EFFORT TO RESOLVE REMAINING
ISSUES NOW OR ELSE FACE DANGER THAT PROGRESS MADE SINCE 1973
WOULD BE LOST, HE REVIEWED SECRETARY'S ASSERTION THAT
PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE ON TERRITORIAL SEA$ ISSUE, ON UNIMPEDED
TRANSIT OF STRAITS ISSUE AND ECONOMIC ZONE ISSUE, AND THEN
DESCRIBED MAJOR ISSUES REMAINING; MARINE SCIENCE RESEARCH. DISPUTE
SETTLEMENT MECHANISM AND DEEP SEABED REGIME.
2, DCM ALSO TOLD ZAKAR IA WE WERE ENCOURAGED BY STATEMENTS MADE
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BY MINISTER OF LAW KADIR (REFTEL B) BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE FOR
NEW YORK, IT LOOKED TO US THAT OUR DIFFERENCES ON QUESTION OF
STRAITS TSCANRBEWOBINDEED TAINEpAND WE ARE OPTIMISTIC THAT
COMPLETE AGREEMENT
3, ZAKARIA REPLIED BY SAYING THAT FOREIGN MINISTRY AND OTHER
INTERESTED MINISTRIES ALREADY STUDYING SECRETARY'S SPEECH (WE
HAD DISPATCHED COPIES TO FOREIGN MINISTRY AND OTHERS IMMEDIATELY
UPON RECEIPT) AND WERE PLEASED BOTH BY ITS TONE AND SUBSTANCE,
GOM AGREED COMPLETELY ON URGENCY OF ACHIEVING SETTLEMENT. HE WAS
NOT YET PREPARED TO SPEAK TO SUBSTANTIVE POINTS CONTAINED IN
SPEECH AS THEY WERE STILL UNDER STUDY BY "EXPERTS". HE COULD
SAY, HOWEVER. GUM'S INITIAL REACTION WAS FAVORABLE AND GOM
OFFICIALS GENERALLY PLEASED AS RESULT OF INITIAL READING,
4, ZAKARIA COMMENTED THAT ON QUESTION OF PASSAGE OF STRAITS HE
SHARED OUR CONFIDENCE THAT ON "PHYSICAL ARRANGEMENTS" WE COULD
QUICKLY REACH AGREEMENT. THERE WAS STILL QUESTION OF LEGAL
REGIME. DCM EXPLAINED THAT IT WAS IMPORTANT MATTER OF PRINCIPLE
FOR USG THAT INTERNATIONAL BODY--WE PREFERRED IMCO--BE APPROVING
BODY FOR QUESTIONS OF CONTROLS, LIMITATIONS ETC', IN INTERNATIONAL
WATERS. THIS WAS BECAUSE WE FELT THAT SOME COUNTRIES WOULD UNI-
LATERALLY IMPOSE COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE CONTROLS', WE HAD NO
SUCH FEAR ABOUT MALAYSIA AND HAD TOLD MALAYSIA' INDONESIA AND
SINGAPORE IN THE PAST THAT WE WOULD SUPPORT ANY REASONABLE
CONTROLS THEY WISHED TO SUBMIT TO IMCO OR ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL
BODY. ZAKARIA DID NOT BITE ON THIS BUT SAID HE HOPED THAT WE
UNDERSTOOD THAT KADIR IN HIS DEPARTURE STATEMENT WAS IMPLYING
SOVEREIGNTY ALTHOUGH HE DID NOT MENTION IT. HE QUICKLY ADDED
THAT DESPITE THIS DIFFERENCE IN PRINCIPLE HE WAS ALSO OPTIMISTIC
WE WOULD BE ABLE TO OVERCOME OUR DIFFERENCES.
5,ZAKAR IA THEN ASKED FOR U. S. POSITION ON ARCHIPELAGOS. DCM
REPLIED THAT OUR BASIC.CONCERN AS REGARDS ARCHI-
PELAGOS WAS QUESTION OF FREE TRANSIT. HE SAID THAT WE UNDERSTOOD
THAT QUESTION LIKE THIS WOULD. BE A KNOTTY ONE FOR INDONESIA AND
MALAYSIA TO WORK OUTI IT WOULD HAVE TO BE GOVERNED BY BILATERAL
TREATY AND WE ANTICIPATED THAT THERE WOULD BE A NUMBER OF .
THESE AROUND THE WORLD COVERING PARTICULAR PROBLEMS. DCM DID NOT
FORESEE USG OBJECTIONS TO SUCH AGREEMENTS AS LONG AS PRINCIPLE
OF FREE TRANSIT OBSERVED, ZAKARIA THEN ASKED IF USG SUPPORTING
INDONESIAN POSITION. DCM REPLIED THAT HE HAD NO INFORMATION
THAT WE WERE AND HE BELIEVED aa THAT OUppREEPOS77ITIIIO?NN WAS AS HE HAD
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DESCRIBED, DCM THEN ASKED STATUS OF INDONESIAN-MALAYSIAN
NEGOTIATIONS ON SUBJECT. EAKARIA MERELY SAID THEY WERE CONTINU-
ING AND HE WAS OPTIMISTIC THEY WOULD ACHIEVE AGREEMENT, HE SAID
THAT MALAYSIA HAS A SPECIAL PROBLEM BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY
COUNTRY IN THE WORLD DIVIDED THE WAY IT IS AND WITH A NEIGHBOR'
ING COUNTRY'S ISLANDS IN BETWEEN,
6, CONVERSATION ENDED WITH ZAKARIA REITERATING THAT GOM SHARED
OUR SENSE OF URGENCY AND WOULD CONTINUE CAREFUL STUDY OF
SECRETARY'S SPEEDK. HE REPEATED THAT GOM?S INITIAL REACTION
WAS THAT THE SECRETARY'S SPEECH WAS POSITIVE AND A STEP FORWARD.
7, COMMENT= THERE MAY BE SOME DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MINISTRY OF
FOREIGN AFFAIRSr WHICH IS TRADITIONALLY LOSVERY NEGOTIATIONSAND THE
MINISTER OF LAW ON SOME
RAKARIA STATEMENT THAT KADIR HAD MEANT TO IMPLY SOVEREIGNTY IS
CLEARLY DESIGNED TO NARROW WHAT KADIR SAID. IT MAY BE THAT
OUR DELEGATION WILL FIND KADIR MORE FORTHCOMING THAN ZAKARIA
WAS SUGGESTING. ALTHOUGH THESE ISSUES ARE SUBJECT TO INTER-
MINISTERIAL REVIEW HERE# WE BELIEVE KADIR HAS GREAT DEAL OF
NEGOTIATING FLEXIBILITY AND WOULD PROBABLY BE SUCCESSFUL IS
GETTING THE PRIME MINISTER TO BACK ANY DECISIONS HE MAKES.
8, DCM FELT SLIGHTLY BOXED IN ON QUESTION OF INDONESIA AND
ARCHIPELAGOS NEGOTIATIONS, HERE IN KUALA LUMPUR WE KNOW
VAGUELY THAT WE HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING WITH ONWISOUSULDEBE
BUT HAVE NO IDEA HOW PROBLEM IS DEVELOPING.
A MISTAKE TO ACHIEVE AN AGREEMENT WITH INDONESIA THAT SEEMED TO
DISREGARD MALAYSIAN INTEREST IN UNIMPEDED TRANSIT BETWEEN TWO
HALVES OF COUNTRIES, THIS WOULD NOT ONLY CAUSE DIFFICULTY
FOR OURSELVES WITH AMALAYSIAUANDOINDQNESIAREWHIIrHIISSNOTOIN
DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN
UNDERHILDEPT OR USUN CAN
OUR INTEREST, WOULD GUIDANCE
PROVIDE ON ARCHIPELAGO
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