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Aware of the special responsibilities of Consultative Parties 

 to ensure that any activities in Antarctica, including comciercial 

 exploration and exploitation in the future, should they occur, 

 should not become the cause of international discord, of danger to 

 the unique Antarctic environment, of disruption to scientific 

 investigation, or be otherwise contrary to the principles or 

 purposes of the Antarctic Treaty; 



Recomaend to their Governments that: 



1. They reaffirm the basic principles set forth in Recommendation 

 VlII-14 of the Eighth Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting-; 



2. They take note with appreciation of the Report of the Group of 

 Experts on Mineral Exploration and Exploitation annexed to 

 the Report of the Ninth Consultative Meeting and make the best 

 possible use of its conclusions and guidelines; 



3. They continue to study the environmental implications of 

 mineral resource activities in the Antarctic Treaty Area 



and hold at a time and place to be arranged through diploraatic 

 channels a meeting of ecological, technological and other 

 related experts, in accordance with Recommendation IV-24, with 

 a view to developing scientific programmes aimed at: 

 (i) irnproving predictions of the impact of possible 

 technologies for mineral exploration and exploitation in the 

 Antarctic, as outlined in Section IIB of the Report of the Group 

 of Experts, and in Section 5 of the SCAR EAMREA Group Report; 

 (ii) developing measures for the prevention of damage to the 

 environment or for its rehabilitation, in accordance with 

 Section IIC of the Report of the Group of Experts; 



A-. They endorse the following principles elaborated at the 



Special Preparatory Meeting held in Paris from 28 June to 

 10 July 1976:- 



(i) The Consultative Parties will continue to play an 

 active and responsible role in dealing with the 

 question of the mineral resources of Antarctica; 

 (ii) the Antarctic Treaty must be maintained in its 

 entirety; 



