LAW OF THE SEA BRIEFING: REFLECTIONS ON THE CARACAS SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS LAW OF THE SEA CONFERENCE

This report is a verbatim transcript from the Law of the Sea briefing held September 26, 1974, concerning reflections on the Caracas session of the United Nations Law of the Sea conference. Fourteen members participated in the briefing, giving their respective views on the outcome of that international conference. It was informally agreed that while no specific treaty texts were adopted by the Caracas conference, there was a great deal more progress that tangible evidence would indicate. Perhaps the most significant development was the very broad explicit support by well over 100 countries of the concept of a 12-mile territorial sea and an economic zone extending out 200 miles.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Prepared in cooperation with the Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.C. Sponsored in part by Office of Naval Research, Arlington, Va.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Rhode Island, Kingston

  Law of the Sea Institue
  Kingston, RI  United States  02881

  Marine Technology Society

  5565 Sterrett Place, Suite 108
  Columbia, MD  United States  21044

  United States Coast Guard

  2100 Second Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20593

  National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

  Sea Grant Program Office, 6010 Executive Boulevard
  Rockville, MD  United States  20852

  Office of Naval Research

  Department of the Navy, 800 North Quincy Street
  Arlington, VA  United States  22217

  Ford Foundation

  477 Madison Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10022
• Publication Date: 1974-12

Media Info

• Pagination: 54 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Appraisals; Evaluation; Fisheries; International law; Meetings; Mineral deposits; Reviews; Territorial seas
• Old TRIS Terms: Reviewing
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Finance; Geotechnology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00091343
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: Occasional paper-24
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Jul 15 1975 12:00AM