United Nations: Proposals Submitted to 1971 Session of Committee on Peaceful Uses of Sea-Bed*

* [Reproduced from the Department of State Bulletin. Vol. LXV, No. 1680 (September 6, 1971).]

1 For President Nixon’s statement on May 23, 1970, see BULLETIN of June 15, 1970, p. 737. [9 ILM 806]

2 U.N. doc. A/AC.138/SC.II/L.4.

3 Appendix A is not attached. [Footnote in original.]

4 It is the view of the United States Government that an appropriate text with respect to traditional fishing should be negotiated between coastal and distant water fishing states. [Footnote In original.]

* [Reproduced from Press Release SB/60 (August 27, 1971) of the Information Service, United Nations Office at Geneva.

[The draft statute for an international sea-bed authority, submitted by Tanzania, appears at I.L.M. page 982. The provisional draft articles of a treaty on the use of the sea-bed for peaceful purposes, submitted by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, appear at I.L.M. page 994. A working paper on the regime for the sea-bed and ocean floor and its sub-soil beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, submitted by thirteen Latin American countries, appears at page 1003. A preliminary working paper, submitted by Afghanistan, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, Nepal, the Netherlands, and Singapore, appears at I.L.M. page 1011. The draft articles on the breadth of the territorial sea, straits, and fisheries, submitted by the United States, appear at I.L.M. page 1013.]