System should be approached by the IOC Secretariat through 

 a circular letter requesting further suggestions as to the 

 coordinated long-term program in the light of the new 

 Resolutions adopted by the 23rd General Assembly of the 

 United Nations, 



During further discussion the following steps were suggested 

 for IOC compliance with the timetable suggested by opera- 

 tive paragraph 4 of Resolution 24l4 (XXIII). 



(1) Development of a statement of principles on 

 the scope of the coordinated long-term 

 prograjii, to be formulated now. 



(2) Development of an interim report^ after the 

 Ponza meeting and after the June meeting of 

 the IOC Working Group on the Expanded Program. 



(3) Development of a full report, after the Sixth 

 IOC Session in September I969. 



Following this discussion the Chairman proposed the establish- 

 ment of a small drafting group to prepare a statement of 

 principles pertaining to the proposed first stage. Ambassador 

 McKernan supported this proposal but suggested that the drafting 

 group be given two additional tasks: 



- to formulate specific questions for the advisory bodies 

 of the IOC (SCOR and ACMRR) in connection with the 

 planned meeting of the joint group of experts in Ponza 

 in May 19^9 ^ and 



- to consider specific tasks for an IOC working group 



to be established in compliance with Bureau Recommenda- 

 tion 8.18. 



The drafting group was then established consisting of delegates 

 of Chile, France, Spain, United States, USSR, SCOR, and FAO. 



With respect to UN Resolution 246? (XXIII), the Secretary 

 asked what kind of studies could be transmitted by the IOC 

 to the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Ocean Floor 

 in the framework of the close cooperation between the IOC 

 and this Committee requested by this Resolution. It was 

 agreed the studies would be the results of work of such working 

 groups of the IOC as, for example, the Working Group on Legal 

 Questions Related to the Scientific Investigations of the 

 Ocean (see Recommendation 9*2). 



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