File includes several miscellaneous documents, including: 1) "Resolution II: Co-ordination of Marine Activities," 2) a declaration involving the peaceful uses of the seabed, 3) an article about mineral exploration in Gabon, 4) an article about mining in Africa, 5) "Financial Terms of Contracts," 6) an address to an unidentified chairman; 7) handwritten financial arrangements; 8) "Economic Impact of Deep Sea Mining"; 9) a partial copy of the 28th Session of the General Assembly; 10) "An Ocean Resources Agency," 11) a partial statute, and 12) Section 4 - Comments on the new model. The part 1 of this file is in MS-2-744, Box 136, Folder 10.
File contains notes written in advance of the 1979-1980 sessions of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS). Also contains a document entitled "Marine Resources, Ocean Management, and the International Development Strategy for the 80s and Beyond."
File includes an article, and agendas from the Pacific Asian Studies Association for the conference on Island and Archipelago Sea Law which was held in Guam, USA from April 5-9, 1977.
File contains a copy of an article by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, discussing the accomplishments made in the Sixth Session of the Law of the Sea Conference (including the Informal Composite Negotiating Text). The article was published in "World Issues," October/November 1977 edition (published by Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions).
File contains documents used in negotiations for the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea. Includes, "Comments on the Compromise Formula, Third Revision," "Comments on the Compromise Formula, Third Revision," a proposal (a new compromise proposal), several untitled statement (some complete, some partial), and a statement on the structure and function of the International Seabed Authority. Some documents contain handwritten (by Elisabeth Mann Borgese) comments. These documents were originally housed in a large binder with other United Nations (UN) reference materials (i.e. press releases, journals, sessional reports) and the contents of MS-2-744, Box 117, Folder 2.
File contains a copy of a statement by John Alan Beesley, presented at a Plenary debate to the enlarged United Nations (UN) Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-bed and the Ocean Floor Beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction.
File contains statements and press releases from the permanent representatives to the United Nations from the United Kingdom, Ukraine, the United States, Fiji, Cyprus, the People's Republic of China, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Sweden, Indonesia, Japan, Peru,the Group of 77 (Colombia), Australia, and Denmark. Some statements were from the forty-seventh (47th) session of the United Statements General Assembly, and others from the First Commission on Science and Technology.
File contains a draft copy (with some corrections) of a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the accomplishments Ninth (9th) Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (including a discussion of the Informal Composite Negotiating Text), and some of the difficulties that lay ahead.
File contains two papers written by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. The first, "The Draft Convention on the Law of the Sea: An Appeal for Action Now," was written after the suspension of the Tenth (10th) Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, after the United States Government announced a review of the Draft Convention. The second is a a copy of "The Draft Convention" on the Informal Composite Negotiating Text.
File contains a summary of the Fifth Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, along with a history of the talks since 1967. Contains some handwritten annotations/corrections.
File contains a copy of a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the Fourth Session of the Preparatory Commission (PrepCom) held in Kingston, Jamaica between March 17 and April 11, 1986. This version contains several handwritten annotations/corrections by Mann Borgese.
File contains a section of a background paper published by the International Ocean Institute (IOI). The analysis by Elisabeth Mann Borgese discusses the Informal Single Negotiating Text (ISNT), which emerged from the Third Session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III).
File contains a copy of a speech, discussing ocean governance in the wake of the Law of the Sea Convention, the Brundtland Report, and the Rio 1992 Summit.
File contains a report on the Preparatory Commission, providing an update on recent accomplishments (mainly between 1986-1987). The report is likely authored by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese on the history of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, up to the Year of the Oceans (1998), and ends with a discussion of what still needs to be done to save the oceans.
File contains three chapters, Including: 1) Chapter six: United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, 2) Chapter XII: The Enterprise; and 3) Chapter XV: The International Seabed Authority and Preparatory Commission. Presumably all authored by Elisabeth Mann Borgese. Also has some handwritten annotations which may be by Arvid Pardo.
File contains a preliminary draft, by the Delegation of Portugal to UNCLoS (United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea) III. The report was co-authored by Mario Ruivo and M.E. Gonçalves, and was written after the fourth (4th) session of UNCLoS. See MS-2-744, Box 126, Folder 22 for another version of this speech.
File contains a speech by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, primarily regarding technology transfer and seabed mining. The speech contains typed and handwritten pages. The file also includes a copy of a fax to Judy Olsen, on Mann Borgese's "Perestroika and the Law of the Sea."
File contains correspondence with Claude Gregory, John Dodge, F. Weizsacker, Jean R. de Salis, John Kendrew, P. Kapitza, Salvatore Quasimodo, Daniele Bovet, Georg Likacs, D. Lavergne, Linus Pauling, S. Radhakrishnan, C.F. Weizsacker, Werner Heisenberg, Robert Forbes, Robert Hutchins, and Theodor Svedberg. Correspondence mainly includes invitations to join the Encyclopedia Universalis' project. Also includes comments written about the encyclopedia by Marcello Colocci (on the "Physics" and "Chemistry" pieces) and Guiseppe Barbreri (on the "Geography" section). Contains English, Italian, and German correspondence.
File contains a transcription from this conference, which held on February 13th and 14th, 1970. Elisabeth Mann Borgese was a participant. The other part of this transcript is in MS-2-744, Box 114, Folder 17.
File contains a copy of a prospectus from the conference, sent to Elisabeth Mann Borgese by Sidney Holt. The prospectus outlines the conference's background, objectives, organization, documentation, and information about participation and working language. The conference was held in Kyoto, Japan, between May 26 and June 2, 1976.
File contains correspondence regarding conference attendance. Correspondents include Leona S. Forman; P. Paolo Fulci; International Sea-bed Authority; Stjepan Keckes.
File includes correspondence to/from: F. Hall, A. Biro, J.J. Miocinovic, J.E. Johnson - S.J. Holt, F. Popper, G.W. Ford, E.J. Borg Constanzi, R. Pillay, E.B. Younie, P. Crane, A.H. Boerman, J.V.A. Nehemiah, C.P. Idyll, H. Kasahara, J.C. Marr, R.A. Nicolosi, J.E. Carroz, J. Traung, E.H. Hartman, L.I.J. Silva, D. Figurelli, E.F. Akyuz, R.I. Jackson, and O.H. Oren. Also includes account statements, a copy of a contract between the FAO and the International Ocean Institute, and documents relating to the Pacem in Maribus conference. File contains duplicates, which have not been scanned.
File contains documents relating to a 1982 workshop jointly held by Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Educational Organization (UNESCO), and the United Nations University (UNU). Documents include a list of participants, drafts of addresses and speeches, and correspondence.
File contains a cover letter by Robert Krueger, sent along with a United Nations (UN) press release detailing four resolutions adopted by the UN on seabeds. Also included is a statement given by American Ambassador C.H. Phillips on that topic.
File contains correspondence with Mary G. Langford of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), regarding the International Oceans Institute (IOI), the meeting on the Law of the Sea in Caracas, and Arvid Pardo.
File includes correspondence from Elisabeth Mann Borgese to Maltese government officials, including Minister for External Affairs Joe Schembri and Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. Discussed was the creation of a United Nations University Campus for Ocean Studies in Malta.
File contains correspondence with George McGovern regarding the appointment of Henry Kissinger to Secretary of State and includes the speech "Major address on the United Nations," given by Senator (and Democratic Presidential nominee) George McGovern to the students and faculty of Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, on October 28, 1972, during the 1972 presidential election.
File contains correspondence with the Non-Governmental Organization Section of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs. File also includes invitations for International Ocean Institute participants to UN-sponsored conferences for NGOs.
File contains "Provisional Verbatim Record of the Fifteen Hundred and fifteenth meeting of the U.N. General Assemply" in which Arvid Pardo presented the Maltese Proposition from November 1, 1967. File also contains relating correspondence with G.F. Dasi and G. Ghironzi in Italian.
File consists of a draft of Howard Wilcox's paper "The Ocean Food and Energy Farm Project", prepared for the 141st Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. New York: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 29 Jan. 1975, and collected by Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
File contains an excerpt from the Congressional Record of the United States Senate, regarding the Fifth Session of the Law of the Sea. Senator Clairborne Pell read "The Complexities of a Sea Change" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese into the record.
File contains statements by Austrian Ambassador Karl Wolf, including a working paper submitted for consideration by the Group of 77, and a paper on the Austrian proposal, JEFERAD (Joint Enterprise For Exploration, Research And Development in Ocean Mining).
File contains a copy of a paper by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, discussing how the Law of the Sea can influence the building of a new international order. Missing page 3.
File contains two copies (a draft and the published version) of an article (subtitled) "Revision and Prevision" by Elisabeth Mann Borgese, which was published in the CSDI (Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions) magazine. The article summarizes the fourth session of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS III).
File contains two information notes, which were submitted as informal background documents for the Secretary-General's informal consultations on deepsead mining and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea held in April and August of 1993.
File contains a report, which was written after the fifth (5th) session of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLoS) III and is of unknown authorship. The file also contains a booklet from the International Ocean Institute (IOI), on the upcoming talks in Geneva (which includes an article by Borgese, "A New Strategy").
File consists of documents (reports, a memorandum, and correspondence) relating to the Austrian proposal for the establishment of a Joint Enterprise for Exploration, Research and Development in the Ocean Mining (JEFERAD). Includes some preliminary remarks on JEFERAD, correspondence from B. Sen, sent with a memo regarding the Austrian proposal before Prepcom from the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committtee, a short speech on the topic (with handwritten corrections by Elisabeth Mann Borgese), a working paper, and a paper entitled "Deep Seabed Mining: Legal and Commercial Considerations."
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