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Exchange Between Expert Panel and Reagan Administration Officials on Non-Seabed-Mining Provisions of LOS Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2017

Fred C. Iklé
Fred C. Iklé*
Affiliation:
Under Secretary of Defense
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After fifteen years of intensive effort, the nations of the world, with full participation by the United States, produced a comprehensive Convention on the Law of the Sea. In 1982, President Reagan decided that the United States would not become a party to the Convention. But formal abstention from the Convention is hardly a complete national oceans policy for the United States. Indeed, that abstention compels the United States to attend carefully to its posture, in law and policy, toward the Convention itself and to each of its many provisions on matters of major interest to the United States.

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American Journal of International Law , Volume 79 , Issue 1 , January 1985 , pp. 151 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1985

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* The Panel on the Law of Ocean Uses is an independent group of specialists in oceans law and policy sponsored by Citizens for Ocean Law. Its members are: Gordon L. Becker, Jonathan I. Charney, Thomas A. Clingan, Jr., John Lawrence Hargrove, Louis Henkin, Ann L. Hollick, Jon L. Jacobson, Terry L. Leitzell, Edward Miles, J. Daniel Nyhan, Bernard H. Oxman, Giulio Pontecorvo, Horace B. Robertson, Jr., J. T. Smith and Louis B. Sohn. This statement was adopted on April 27, 1984.