LAW OF THE SEA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2002
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: July 6, 1976
• Content Type: TELEGRAM

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SUBJECT, LAW OF THE SEA
1, SUMMARY. THIS CABLE CONTAINS SUMMARIES OF VARIOUS
CONVERSATIONS IN GENEVA AND KUALA LUMPUR NOT OTHERWISE
REPORTED ON NEXT SESSION OF LOS CONFERENCE, IT INCLUDES
MEETING WITH SELECTED MEMBERS OF COASTAL STATE GROUP IN
GENEVA (CANADA, CHILE, SRI LANKA, PERU, NORWAY, KENYA,
AUSTRALIA) # AND BILATERAL DISCUSSIONS WITH CANADA (BEESLEY ),
CHILE (ZEGERS), SENEGAL (CISSE), SECRETARIAT (EULETA),
AND OTHERS IN KUALA LUMPUR, END SUMMARY.
2, CONFERENCE PROCEDURES, IT APPEARS COASTAL STATE
GROUP DESIRES TO AVOID ITEMIZED VOTING, BUT TO PUSH COMMITTEE
2 (AND POSSIBLY 3), TEXTS AT LEAST TO FORMALIZATION BY END OF
SUMMER SESSION IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT HAPPENS IN COMMITTEE 1.
PACKAGE VOTE IN COMMITTEE 2 IS THUS POSSIBLE. BEESLEY
BROACHED POSSIBILITY OF SEPARATING COMMITTEE 1, BUT
OTHERS FELT THAT THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE, AND
BEESLEY AGREED. ZULETA IS HOSTILE TO IDEA OF INDICATIVE
VOTING, AND FEELS IT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH RULES OF
PROCEDURE, SO IDEA WAS PROPOSED AND DROPPED WHEN RULES
WERE DEBATED, THERE IS WIDESPREAD VIEW THAT SOME SORT OF
GROUP MUST TAKE CONTROL IN COMMITTEE 1, BUT ZULETA WARNS
VERY STRONGLY AGAINST OPEN FORMATION OF A CORE GROUP,
EVEN IF OTHERS PERMITTED TO ATTEND: "CORRIDOR NEGOTIATION"
WILL TAKE PLACE, BUT "EVERYONE WHO COUNTS HAS CAUGHT ON
TO YOUR GAME LAST TIME, AND IT CANNOT BE REPEATED."
EULETA IS PROMOTING IDEA OF BREAKING UP WORK IN COMMITTEE
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11 IN FORM UNDER ENGO' INTO LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ISSUES;
HE SUGGESTS LAUTERPACHT (AUSTRALIA) HANDLE THE FORMER,
WITH RESPECT TO THE LATTER, HE IS PROMOTING KASEMSRI
(THAILAND)' SAYS KOEEMI (IRAN) WOULD BE EXCELLENT IF
HE COULD DO IT, AND IS ALSO CONSIDERING VORAH (MALAYSIA).
HE-FEELS ENGO WILL "NOT' ACCEPT P T0, AND THE AFRICANS WILL
NOT A C~ A LATIN, H R IS CONSIDERABLE
FINAL SESSION IN EARLY 1977) POSSIBLY LIMITED TO FINISHING
UP COMMITTEE 1; HOWEVER, ASIDE FROM INDIA, THERE IS NO
INDICATION OF STALLING,
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MP R AGAINST ARTICLE 22 (PARALLEL SYSTEM OF EXPLDITA-
ION). ALTHOUGH HE IS TYPICALLY PREACHING MODERATIO
AND COMING UP WITH "COMPROMISES" THAT ARE EXTREME.
AGOTA WAS JOINED BY VANDUPUYE (GHANA), KOEEMI (IRAN)'
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AND YUSUF (IN A HOWEVER, DISCUSSION WAS CONFUSED
BY AALCC SECRETARIAT READING OF ARTICLE 22 AS ESTABLISH-
ING 3 RATHER THAN 2 SYSTEMS OF EXPLOITATION, WITH MUCH
DEBATE CENTERED ON CLARIFYING THAT ISSUE. (THIS MAY HAVE
HAD FORTUITOUS EFFECT OF FOCUSSING ATTENTION ON PUNCTUATION
CHANGES IN ARTICLE 22 TO ACHIEVE INTENDED RESULT). ,A.ME
GROUP ATTACKED FREE PROSP CT NG REGIME, DESPITE LAUTERPACHT'S
ATTEMPT TO POINT T THAT ANNEX 1, PA RA 121 MEETS CONCERNS
IN THIS REGARD. (IT ALSO APPEARS THAT JAGOTA IS RUNNING
FOR THE ILC THIS FALL, AND MAY BE ATTEMPTING TO UNDERCUT
PINTO (WHO IS SEEKING REELECTION) WITH THE AFRICANS BY
ASSOCIATING HIM WITH THE REVISED SNT AND COMPROMISES WITH
US. AT THE LEAST, THE SRI LANKAN REPRESENTATIVE SEEMED
WORRIED, AND WARNED THAT JAGOTA'S REAL EFFORT MAY BE TO
STIMULATE US AND INDUSTRIALIZED STATES T O SURFACE I N
PUBLIC CAMPAIGN FOR PINTO,) EULETA, IN PRIVATE CONVER-
SATION WITH OX MA N, SHARPLY ATTACKED US PROPOSAL ON FINANCIAL
ARRANGEMENTS AS AN UNHEARD-OF-WINDFALL FOR COMPANIES;
HE PARTICULARLY ATTACKED COMPUTATION OF RETURN ON INVEST-
MENT FOR FULL LIFE OF CONTRACT ON BASIS OF ORIGINAL
RATHER THAN DEPRECIATED INVESTMENT. APPARENTLY HIS
DAUGHTER, NOW AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN NEW YORK,
STIMULATED THIS VIEW, LAUTERPACHT ARTFULLY PUSHING
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ARGUMENTS FOR ARBITRATION FOR CI DISPUTES WITHOUT
SAYING THIS IS HIS VIEW,
4, HIGH SEAS STATUS OF ECONOMIC ZONE. MOST DELEGATIONS
LISTENING TO US ARGUMENTS WITHOUT COMMENT, BEESLEY
SPECIFICALLY STATED THAT CANADA AND US HAVE OPPOSITE
POSITIONS ON THE ISSUE, BUT TOWARD END OF CONVERSATION
SEEMED TO BE SEARCHING FOR COMPROMISE FORMULA. ATTORNEY
GEN, KADIR OF MALAYSIA SAID HE AGREED WITH OUR ARGU-
MENTS. EEGERS OF CHILE STILL DIFFICULT ON ISSUE.
NORWAY (VI NDENESS) TRYING TO HELP.
5, SC IENT IF IC RESEARCH. MOST INTERLOCUTORS TAKEN ABACK
BY EXTENT OF OUR CRITICISM OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TEXT,
BUT ARE SAYING LITTLE, HOWEVER, AMBASSADOR ARIAS
SCHREI BER OF PERU SAID I N FRONT OF OTHERS THAT IF"
THAT I S THE US ATTITUDE, PERU WILL STOP ALL US SCIENTIFIC
RESEARCH OFF ITS COAST. WE RETORTED THAT THIS IS PRE-
CISELY OUR POINTS SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH SHOULD NOT BE
STOPPED BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE WHAT THE FLAG STATE IS
SAYING,.
6, DISPUTE SETTLEMENT; LEADING MEMBERS OF THE COASTAL
STATE GROUP APPEAR READY T O ACCEPT CHILEAN IDEA THAT
THERE WOULD BE C OM PU LS AR Y DISPUTE SETTLEMENT I N ECONOMIC
ZONE FOR INTERFERENCE WITH NAVIGAT"ION, OVERFLIGHT.
AND COMMUNICATION, AND FOR FAILURE TO MEET ENVIRONMENTAL
DUTIES, BUT NOT RPT NOT FOR FISHERIES. IT SEEMS KENYA
(NJINGA) MAY BE READY TO GO ALONG WITH THIS,
71 ADDITIONAL COUNTRY COMMENTS:
A, SENEGAL, CISSE TOLD AMBASSADOR LEARSON THAT
SENEGAL'S O V E R R I D I N G INTEREST I S I N FISHERIES AND STRONG
COASTAL STATE JURISDICTION, HE HOPES TO SPEND MORE TIME
IN COMMITTEE 1, HOWEVER,
B. CANADA, THERE IS NO RESPONSE YET ON STRAITS/ARCH-
PELAGOES. DESPITE APPEARANCE OF REASONABLENESS, BEESLEY
WAS DIFFICULT ON SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES. BEESLEY SUGGESTED
POSSIBILITY OF BILATERAL MEETING IN NORTH AMERICA DURING.
WEEK OF JULY 12. REQUEST DEPARTMENT CONTACT CANADIAN
EMBASSY WITH INQUIRY, BUT WITHOUT SEEMING OVERLY
EAGER,
C. AUSTRALIA, LAUTERPACHT CLEARLY RELISHES IDEA OF
MAJOR ROLE IN COMMITTEE 1- SINCE HE WAS "BORED BEING LEFT
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ON THE PERIPHERY '' HOWEVER, HE MUST BE AT THE HAGUE
FROM AUGUST 5 TO 10, BUT MAY COME TO NY FOR FIRST 2 DAYS
OF SESSION,. LAUTERPACHT DID NOT KNOW F LTAN
DEMARCHE- IN WASHINGTO N ARTICLE 9 N PLOB u -AN.D
A ED THA t~TERPRETATION THAT LIMITED
LAND-BASED PRODUCT ION WAS IN T. LAUTERPACHT BRIEFED
ON JAKAR A DISCUSSIONS,
D, KENYA, NJENGA WAS MORE MODERATE ON ECONOMIC ZONE
AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT, HE IS PLANNING MORE
ACTIVE ROLE IN COMMITTEE 1, TOON
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