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and exploitation of zhe Krill, and we're at the point 

 of neaotiatina this regime Dasically oecause some countries 

 are at a point of cmmercial development of krill. We're 

 responding to exploitation pressures. 



I hope very much that tne U.S. delegation will write 

 into the Treaty its basic purpose -- which is, in fact, to 

 conserve the Antarctic ecosystem. This is the overriding 

 purpose, and this is seen to be so in the document that 

 you'd come back from Canberra with. I think it's very 

 easy to lost sight of that in the details of the exploita- 

 tion, limits, and so forth. i 



THE CHAIRMAN: That's certainly our intention. 



If there are no other comments, the meeting is adjourned 



(Whereupon, at 3:16 p.m. the meetng was adjourned) 



