ECUADORAN POSITION ON LAW OF THE SEA.

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• Publication Date: February 11, 1958
• Content Type: MEMO

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SUBJECT, Eatladorarr. lk)FitiOn Or. -Lau' of the
Az .previoUsl reported by elc'mm? the Embassy today received an
Aide Memo:1,re fromthe Ecuadonm- Foreign Office?summartotng the Ecuadoran
p0OitiOn. OP.. the Law of t'he -.Sea. This position has been. 7ee8ched in a
seriee of comersptions beld. in Quito be renresenta:tives of
Ecuador., Peru. and iJhile in p.reparation for the Geneira Oonferenoe. The
8paatsh text of -the Aide heoire is enclosed. Followtng is an informal
English translatilyng.
:."The aotio 6f tj,e .2co.adorau. delegation to tA:e Conie:,ence
on. tbe Cvn :('CI
I) The ,_Z.1 L,to:i:est the coastal btate lie. the main-
tena.loe? 'thej c: any part
oeas ue t; .(7!;)71dto3ial &,10a in
krticle :j4. of the. International Law ?omission, and the consequent'
ri.O'It to adopt unilateral Tnse.T.:-)tion measures founded an
sointific criteria atmd auject to scientific arbitration as
establiShed in Article 55 of tne Oomissionl are cohsidered
insufficient in oertain eases such as that of the Southern
Pacific countries. Thereforep Ecuador will. seek at Geneva
not only Loternational reco:nition of the preferental and un'
conditional riat of the coastal State to dictate unilaterally
c;cnservation measnres in a .zone of the sea adjacent to its
territorial waterer but also a special right to the resources
of such zone, under which right exploitation by nationals of
aw state caidd. be carried out aq7 on the conditions established
tiy the coastaltate.
- 2) There is a relationship between the questions of liberty
agd rUht- to fish and the conservation of the living resources
and the cslestion of the determination of the width of the
territorial sea. Ifp in the first of these questions, due
recognfLtion is- obtained at Geneva of the special right of the
coastal State to the resources of the zone adjacert. to its
territorial sea and the consequent right to exploit and regulate
fishing in the said zones the sUbject of the width of the
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territorial sea would be of minor importance for the States
that seek the establishment of the rights of the coastal
State in the zone adjacent to its territorial waters.
29 The memoranda submitted by the Embassy of the United
States have been studied carefully by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Ecuador and the reaction to them of the Etpadoran
delegation to Geneva will be defined in. the light of the
principles expressed above. The delegation has instructions
to maintain the closest contact with the delegation of the
United States of America at Geneva.
3. As for the theory of abstention as a conservation procedure
in certain circumstances the Foreign Ministry of Ecuador
considers it interesting for situations outside of the adjacent
zone in which the special right of the coastal state is to be
- established and in any case believes it would be useful to go
deeper into the study of this procedure in order to determine
its scope with precision."
It would qppear from the above that Ecuador might be prepared
to support the United States' position on the 3-mile limit if the
United States would agree to the position of Ecuador v Peru and Chile
on the rights of the coastal State over the resources of the waters
adjaoent to the territorial sea.
Enclosure I ate 7ti
Aide Memoire in Spanish9
dtd. Feb. 109 1958.
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John I. Fi,d1burne
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AIDE MEMOIRE
La acci6n de la Delegacidn del Ecuador en la Oonferenoia sobre
el Derecho del Mar girard alrededor de los siguientes criterios
fundameptales;
1) El inters especial del Estado ribereHo en el mantenimiento
de la produetividad do los recursos vivos en cualquiera parte del alta
mar adyacente a su mar territorial definido en el artYoulo 54 de la
Comisi6n de Derecho Internacional y el consiguiente derecho de adoptar
medidas uriiaterales de conservaci6n fundadas en oriterios oientlfioes
y sujetas a arbitraje ciertYfico que establece el artfculo 55 de la
Comisi'or., se consideran insuficientes en ciertos caeos como el de los
parses del Paelfico Sure 1P1 tal virtud el Ecuador bneelaT4 en atiAbra
no s6lo el 12econocimiento internacional del derecho preferente y no
condicionado del Estado xlbereao de dictar umilateralmente medidas de
consereaciein en una zona de mar adyacente a su mar territorial, sino
tambin un derecho especial a los recursos de dicha zona, derecho en
virtud del cual is explotaci6n por nacionales de oualquder Estado
podrta realizarse s6lo en las condiciones que establezca el Estado
riberefto
2) UNAste relani6a entre las ouestiones de liber-tad y derecho
de pesca y conservaci6n de los recursos vivos y la cuesti6n de la
determillact6e de la anchura del mar territorial. Si en les primeras
se obtavlere en Ginebra el debido reconocimiento del derecho especial
del Estado rdbereao a los recursos de la zona ad rent a su mar
territorial y del eonsiguiente derecho de explotar, reglamentar y
fiscalizar la pesca en dicha zona? el asunto de la anchura del mar
territerial revestierfa dmportancia menor para los Estados que buscan
el estableeileiento de los derechos del Estado ribereAo en la zona adya?
cente a su mar territorial*
20 Los memorandums sometddos por la Embajada de los Estados Unidos
han sido estudiados cuidadosamente por el Ministerio de Relaciones
Exteriores del Ecuador y la reaccidn a ells de su Delegaci6m a
Ginebra se definirA a la luz de los principios arriba expuestos0
La Delegaci6n tiene instruccionee de mantener en Ginebra el mAs
estrecho contacto con la Delecaci6n de los Estados Unidos de Amgrica0
3, En lo que respecta a la teorla de la abstencidn come procedimiento
de conservacidn en determinadas circumstancias, la Oancillerfa del
Ecuador lo considera interesante para situaciones fuera de la zona
adyacente en la que se pretende establecer el derecho privativo del
Estado ribereao y, en todo caso, cree Atil quo se profundice en el
estudio de este precedimiento a fin de precisar su alcance0
Quito? a 10 de Febrero de 1958
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