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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Marian Nash Leich
Marian Nash Leich*
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Department of State
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 77 , Issue 3 , July 1983 , pp. 616 - 623
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1983

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1 Dept. of State Files, L/T. The Department envisages submission of the Convention in the near future to President Reagan for transmittal to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification.

1 Done at Montego Bay, Jamaica, Dec. 10, 1982, UN Doc. A/CONF.62/122 and Corrs. 3 and 8 (1982), reprinted in 21 ILM 1261 (1982).

2 For the announcement, see 18 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 887 (July 12, 1982), Dept. State Bull., No. 2065, Aug. 1982, at 71. The Convention had been adopted by the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea on April 30, 1982.

See also Law of the Sea and Oceans Policy, id., No. 2067, Oct. 1982, at 48 (statement by Ambassador Malone, James L. Google Scholar, the President’s Special Representative for the Third UN Conference on the Law of the Sea, before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Aug. 12, 1982). The statement reviews the results of the 11 th session of the conference and explains why the United States was unable to accept the deep seabed mining provisions of the Convention and voted against its adoption. (The vote for adoption was 130 in favor (France), 4 against, and 17 abstentions (the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom). Israel, Turkey, and Venezuela also voted against adoption. Some of the 17 states abstaining on the vote subsequently signed the Convention.)

3 On Sept. 2, 1982, the United States signed an Agreement Concerning Interim Arrangements Relating to Polymetallic Nodules of the Deep Sea Bed with France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom, which entered into force immediately. TIAS No. 10562, reprinted in 21 ILM 950 (1982).

4 19 Weekly Comp. Pres. Doc. 383–84 (March 10, 1983).

5 Id. at 384–85, 48 Fed. Reg. 10,605–06 (1983).

6 Dept. of State File No. P83 0053–2142.