U.S. Oceans Policy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oceans and International Environment ... 93-1, on S. Res. 82 ..., June 19, 1973U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973 - 95 pages |
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Page 66 - States shall take all possible steps to prevent pollution of the seas by substances that are liable to create hazards to human health, to harm living resources and marine life, to damage amenities or to interfere with other legitimate uses of the sea.
Page 73 - States shall promote international cooperation in scientific research exclusively for peaceful purposes: (a) By participation in international programmes and by encouraging cooperation in scientific research by personnel of different countries; (b) Through effective publication of research programmes and dissemination of the results of research through international channels...
Page 73 - ... certify that the research will be conducted in accordance with this Convention by a qualified institution with a view to purely scientific research ; (c) ensure that the coastal State has all appropriate opportunities to participate or be represented in the research project directly or through an appropriate international institution of its choice ; the coastal State shall give reasonable advance notification of its...
Page 58 - Any dispute which may arise with respect to the interpretation or application of the provisions of this Convention...
Page 85 - State may draw straight archipelagic baselines joining the outermost points of the outermost islands and drying reefs of the archipelago provided that within such baselines are included the main islands and an area in which the ratio of the area of the water to the area of the land, including atolls, is between 1 to 1 and 9 to 1.
Page 85 - State constituted wholly by one or more archipelagos and may include other islands; (b) "archipelago" means a group of islands, including parts of islands, interconnecting waters and other natural features which are so closely interrelated that such islands, waters and other natural features form an intrinsic geographical, economic and political entity, or which historically have been regarded as such.
Page 24 - Louisiana, Maine. Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania.
Page 2 - Building a strong and lasting relationship with China has been an important foreign policy goal of four consecutive American administrations. Such a relationship is vital to our long-term national security interests and contributes to stability in East Asia. It is in the national interest of the United States that this important strategic relationship be advanced.
Page 62 - SECTION A : OBLIGATIONS TO PROTECT THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT Article I: General Obligation Article II: Particular Obligations (Two articles on these subjects were discussed during the March/April meeting of the Seabed Committee.
Page 65 - Convention shall not apply to those vessels and aircraft entitled to sovereign immunity under international law. However each party shall ensure by the adoption of appropriate measures that such vessels and aircraft owned or operated by it act in a manner consistent with the object and purpose of this Convention, and shall inform the Organisation accordingly.