File contains correspondence. Correspondents include Dr. T. Eitel, Member of Parliament Charles Caccia (includes a press release from his office), Richard C. Caruana (on ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea), The Right Honourable Joe Clark (Secretary of State for External Affairs), Harlan Cleveland (on the boat paper, and the reasons it must be resisted), law professor Thomas A. Clingan, Professor Umberto Columbo, Guido De Marco (Maltese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs), Indonesian Ambassador Hasjim Djalal (on the non-paper, and the need to establish a sea-bed mining authority immediately), and Akiko Domoto. Also includes a draft paper by the Group of 77 ("Agreement on the Establishment of an Interim Regime from the Coming into Force of the Convention to the Time when Commerical Seabed Mining Becomes Economically and Ecologically Feasible").
File contains correspondence with Ambassador John Alan Beesley, Canada's ambassador to the Law of the Sea Conference, and the head of the drafting committee. Topics of discussion include Beesley's honourary degree from Dalhousie, ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS), Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XXVI, Law of the Sea training at the International Ocean Institute (IOI). File also contains a newspaper article on PIM XXVI, several articles and speeches by Ambassador Beesley ("The Missing Environmental Perspective," "The Negotiating Strategy of UNCLOS III: Developing and Developed Countries as Partners: A Pattern for Future Multilateral International Conferences?," "Purposes and Principles or Platitudes and Pronouncements," and "The International Constitution for the Oceans: Canada and the Rule of the Law"). Also includes "The Plot to Save the World" by Wade Rowland, which mentions Beesley and the UNCLoS conference, and copies of "Canada and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: The Need for Ratification," written/edited in part by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, and sent to various government officials.
File contains correspondence with Erich Blissenhach, who worked with the German mining company Preussag. Most discussions are about sea-bed mining, and the push towards an international regime to monitor it (and touches on topics like the boat paper, the attempt to rewrite Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and other related topics). Some correspondence concerns Club of Rome, Pacem in Maribus (PIM) conferences and International Ocean Institute. Also includes a copy of a "Proposal for an Initiative the German Delegation Could Take at the Next Session of the Assembly and Council of the International Sea-bed Authority" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, a copy of "Alternative Models for Pioneer Cooperation in Exploration, Technology Development, and Training" by Mann Borgese; a copy of an article by Blissenbach ("Technology Assessment of Deep Sea Nodule Mining").
FIle includes correspondence between Ambassador Hamilton S. Amerasinghe, permanent representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and president of the Law of the Sea conference. Topics of discussion include Pacem in Maribus (PIM) conferences, the International Ocean Institute (and a meeting of its trustees), and Arvid Pardo and Mann Borgese's study on the New International Economic Order, as part of RIO (Reshaping the International Order). Also includes an address by Ambassador Amerasinghe given before the 1974 Caracas meeting of the conference, a brochure (from the Marga Institute), and an agenda for a conference on the New International Economic Order and the Law of the Sea.
File contains correspondence with Carmen Artigas, a lawyer working in the Secretariat of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Discussed is her attendance at the Pacem in Maribus (PIM) XI conference.
File contains correspondence with various individuals. Correspondents include Najeeb Al Nuimi (Legal Advisor to the Crown Prince on Qatar), which discuss Pacem in Maribus XXI, and the Secretary-General's consultations on the Law of the Sea, and attached is a paper by Mann Borgese: "Making the Convention 'Universally Accepatble';" Lennox Ballah of the Institute of Marine Affairs (attached is a copy of the Nonpaper); W. Balzan (personal assistant to Guido De Marco); Paul Berenger, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Mauritius; Martin Blakeway (who wrote to the Prince of Tonga about raitification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea); United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, which advocate turing the Preparatory Commission into an Interim Authority, in light of the "boat paper; and Salvino Busuttil on Malta's failure to announce ratification of the convention.
File contains a copy of the typed transcript. Present are Elisabeth Mann Borgese, Robert Hutchins, Arvid Pardo, [Friedman], [Hambro], [Andrassy], [Rao], [Freeman], [Kaplan], [Crawford], [Wheeler], [Wilkinson], [Mero], [Kruger], [Tugwell], [Armstrong], [Hoffman], Harry Ashmore, [Kelly], [Bucher], [Campbell], [Khan], [Busha], and [Gaskell]. The transcript covers the June 17th and 18th, 1968 sessions.
File contains a copy of a document distributed by the Observer of Peru, Ambassador Alfonso Arias-Schriber, at the debates on the Law of the Sea in Lagos, Nigeria.
File contains a transcription from an unknown conference or seminar at which the law of the sea is discussed, which was found loose and disorderly. Transcript includes delegates [Richardson], [Yankov], [Brucan], Elisabeth Mann Borgese, [Sohn], [Hambro], [La Que], [Abi-Saab], Arvid Pardo, [Peresic], Lord Ritchie-Calder, Sidney Holt, J. van Ettinger, Ambassador Boudjakdji, [Castaneda], [Boud], and [Vargas].
File contains a copy of working paper two, which comprises four resolutions: Resolution I on the "Establishment of the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-Bed Authority and for the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea;" Resolution II on "Governing Preparatory Investment in Pioneer Activities Relating to Polymetallic Nodules;" Resolution III and Resolution IV both titled "The Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea." Also includes a loose page from another document.
File contains a portion of a transcript of am afternoon session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS). Attended by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, [NSG], Arvid Pardo, Sidney Holt, [La Que], [Arrhenius], [Haber], [Sahovic], [Sohn], [Palma], [Emich], [Hoftsee], [Harvey], [Skoglund], [Hoveyda], [Busha], and others. Discussion of a piece of legislation or an agreement.
File contains material originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) reference material (i.e. press releases, journals, sessional reports), and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 1. File contains a memorandum from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf, and amendments to the fifth (5th) draft.
File contains documents originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) materials and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 4, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 6, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 7, and MS-2-744 Box 117, File 8. Includes memos to Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf and Anton Vratusa from Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Topics discussed include the Group of 77, and establishing an institutional headquarters for the Law of the Sea in Malta.
File includes a copy of a project proposal on the new international order, includes (as an attachment), the table of contents from "The New International Economic Order and the Law of the Sea" by Arvid Pardo and Elisabeth Mann Borgese (published as an International Ocean Institute (IOI) Occasional Paper), and the table of contents for the IOI's "Caribbean Study and Dialogue." From the "Reunion internacional de consuita para la evaluacion del programa de investigactiones del area nuevo orden economico internacional" held in Mexico City.
File contains materials from the Second and Third Committees including Articles (with applicable revisions and corrections), a report to the First Committee on the work of Negotiating Group 3 (Three), compromise suggestions by the Chairman of Negotiating Group 4 (Four) and other reports, in particular "Reports of the Committees and Negotiating Groups" submitted at the seventh session.
File contains documents originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) materials and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 4, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 5, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 6, and MS-2-744, Box 117, File 8. Includes handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese (summarizing meetings), First Committee workshop notes, and a memo to Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf on negotiations with coastal states.
File contains informal suggestions by various countries, "Financial Arrangements of the Authority" (redrafted versions of the relevant articles of the convention), "Financing the Enterprise," meeting minutes (mainly on the protection and preservation of the marine environment), a memorandum of the group of land-locked and geographically disavantaged states "On the Rights of the Land-Locked and Geographically Disadvantaged States in the Economic Zone," and a memorandum by Peru (as co-ordinator of the group of coastal states). Parts 1 and 2 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 7 and MS-2-744, Box 120, File 8, respectively.
File contains "The right of landlocked states to participate in the development of mariculture," informal meeting notes regarding dispute settlement, notes from the Third Informal Plenary Meeting on Dispute Settlement, notes from a workshop of the First Committee, and notes from the Fourth Informal Plenary Meeting on Dispute Settlement.
File contains informal suggestions by various countries, informal meeting notes, a provisional list of delegations, "Financing the Enterprise," a presentation by various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) on the issue of seabed mining, a speech by a United Kingdom (UK) delegate on the transfer of technology, notes for Minister Jens Evensen's summation, some handwritten notes (including some by Elisabeth Mann Borgese), and a list of participants. Parts 1 and 3 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 7 and MS-2-744, Box 120, FIle 9, respectively.
File contains draft ammendments, various articles, suggested compromise formulae, a note by Tommy Koh, "Financial arrangements of the Enterprise", informal conference room documents, Chairman's reports, a report by an ad hoc group on the relationship between disarmament and development, a memo by the group of landlocked states, informal meeting notes, a memo by Peru, committee records and various informal suggestions. Parts 2 and 3 of this file are in MS-2-744, Box 120, File 8 and MS-2-744, Box 120, File 9, respectively.
This file contains a provisional list of delegations, a statement by Ambassador V. Villadsen (Denmark) in Negotiating Group Number 1 (One), and a draft memo concerning the rights of land-locked countries in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
This file contains a memorandum from Elisabeth Mann Borgese marked "San Marino" and originally was personal and confidential. Concerns, at least in part, the agenda for the intersessional working session to be held prior to the Seventh Session of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) III.
File contains two lists of participants. One is unlabelled with handwritten notes by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, the other list is from the Intersessional Consultations on the Law of the Sea in Geneva on March 1, 1977.
File contains a description of subjects to be discussed in connection with the seabed regime (marked "Statment by Ambassador Wolf"), other discussion notes, meeting minutes, a list of participants, a memo, and a draft resolution.
File contains lists of delegations to various sessions of the United Nations Law of the Sea Conference. It also includes lists of officers of the conference, and membership of the general committee.
This file contains meeting notes originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) materials and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 4 and MS-2-744, Box 117, File 5, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 6, and MS-2-744, Box 117, File 7. The meetings were chaired by President Amerasinghe or Jens Evensen.
File contains documents originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) materials and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, File 4, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 5, MS-2-744, Box 117, File 7 and MS-2-744 Box 117, File 8. File contains summarizes of meetings held in August 1976.
File contains a photocopied excerpt from "Voices for the Oceans" edited by R. Rajagopalan and published by the International Ocean Institute Operational Centre in Madras, India. The report summarizes the views of 200 individuals consulted over four public hearings. The excerpt also includes a preface to the work written by Eduardo Faleiro.
File contains correspondence with Dr. M.M.K. Sardana of the Department of Ocean Development (India). Correspondence concerns LASER research and its implications for seabed mapping, Elisabeth Mann Borgese's attempts to amend the Law of the Sea Convention before it comes into fource, and the International Ocean Institute and its training programmes. The file also includes a paper, "The Role of the Prepratory Commission in the International Seabed Authority in Implementing the Pioneer Regime."
File contains a summary of what was Item one at a meeting chaired by Reynaldo Galindo Pohl, conducted at Pacem in Maribus (PIM) VII. Contains handwritten comments and corrections by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains the draft report produced from the third (3rd) meeting of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO)'s executive committee in Rio de Janeiro. Discussed at the meeting were financial and administrative matters, along with plans for the second (2nd) and third (3rd) plenary sessions.
File includes a cover letter from Layashi Yaker, along with two draft reports. The draft report for the Third Session of the Commission contains a background information note. Topics discussed at the Third Plenary Session include the North Sea dispute, and administrative matters (including reports from the study groups and the writing of the final report). The Executive Committee dicussed administrative and financial matters, and a summary of the findings of the Third Plenary Session.
File contains a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, on the importance of a "technology transfer" to poor (mainly southern) nations to allow them to achieve sustainable development with respect to their ocean resources. It was originally filed with papers from the Geneva meetings in October, 1996, and may have been presented to members of IWCO (Independent World Commission on the Oceans) during those meetings. The file folder also contains a shorter version of a paper on the same topic, which was sent to Bill Faries. File contains duplicate copies which have not been digitized.
File contains a survey that was sponsored by Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). In it scientists, academics, policy-makers, and others were asked their opinions on the following topics: Coastal zone management, marine pollution, marine living resources, research and development, and education and training.
File contains a copy of a summary report of the regional hearing that was held at International Ocean Institute (IOI) China Operational Center in Tianjin, May 9-11, 1995. Also includes two additional summary reports: "Phase II: Workshop on the implementation of UNCLOS [United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea] in China as a Follow-Up up to The Hearing," held November 2-5, 1995 in Tianjin, China, and a brief summary report on "Phase III: Group of Experts Proposal Preparation Meeting," held December 13-14, 1995, in Tianjin, China.
File includes both a brief summary of the hearing (which was released to Commission members before the full summary report was prepared), and a copy of the report. This regional hearing was held at the International Ocean Institute (IOI) China Operational Center in Tianjin, China (May 9-11, 1995).
File contains a draft report, from the group's meeting held March 14-16, 1997, in Lisbon. Discussed are trends in science and technology and their effect on scientific research and management of the oceans.
File contains a summary of a seminar relating to the work of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), held on June 21, 1996 in New Delhi.
File contains a draft report on the sixth (6th) meeting Executive Committee, that was held on June 5, 1997, in Newport, Rhode Island. The report discusses arrangements and plans for upcoming sessions and meetings ofh te Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). File also includes a cover letter from Layashi Yaker, and a corrigendum to the report of the fifth executive committee.
File contains a report by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, containing a discussion of the Regional Seas Programme (initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme), and relating it to the work of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO).
File contains a draft report, which resulted from the group's meeting held October 9-11, 1996, in Geneva. The report provides a summary of the findings of the study group (which deal with implementing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, or UNCLoS III). The report also contains a list of participants and a draft agenda. Also included in the file is a cover letter from Layashi Yaker.
FIle contains a note by the Secretariat on issues to be considered by the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO). The file is labelled "IWCO/WP8." File also includes "Comments on IWCO/WP8 (Working Paper 8)" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains an information note on the second plenary session of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), which was held July 2-5, 1996 in Rio de Janeiro. Paper outlines the results of the four working groups (legal, security, economics, and science/technology).
File contains a draft report of the seventh (7th) meeting of the Executive Committee, held in Cape Town, South Africa on November 10, 1997. Topics discussed include arrangements for the final two sessions of the Commission, and a submission of recommendations to the United Nations General Assembly. The file also contains a list of participants at the meeting.
File contains a report authored by Don Mills, discussing the creation of material highlighting oceans, and the role NGOs (non-governmental organizations) can play in its production.
File includes a draft report from the meeting that was held May 3-4, 1996, in Lisbon. The meeting discussed administrative and financial matters, the Commission's communication strategy, interactions with other agencies (both within the United Nations, and Non-Governmental Organizations, or NGOs), issues to be considered by the Commission, and planning for the Second Session of the Commission (held in Rio de Janerio) and the Third Plenary Session (held in Rotterdam).
File contains a draft report from the second (2nd) plenary session of the Independent World Commission on the Oceans (IWCO), which was held July 2-5, 1996, in Rio de Janeiro. The report provides an update on interssional activities (e.g., establishing a secretariat, the program of work, and financial matters), and on the Working Groups. Other issues raised at the meeting include: the public awareness campaign, ocean governance, and indigenous peoples and the oceans. Also includes a list of participants.