(c) The Interest of the United Nations with various 

 aspects of peaceful uses of the ocean floor and 

 sea-bed beyond the limits of present national 

 jurisdiction. 



The Secretary outlined the timetable Involved in the imple- 

 mentation of the new resolutions with all its implications 

 for the IOC and informed the meeting of the action contemplated 

 by the Director-General of UNESCO in this connection. In 

 particular he referred to the intention of the Director- 

 General of UNESCO to proceed with the establishment of an 

 Interagency Committee for the IOC after the May I969 

 session of the Executive Board of UNESCO. 



The representative of the United Nations, Dr. J. P. Levy, 

 presented the new resolutions of the UN General Assembly in 

 their historical context. Dr. W. M. Chapman (ACMRR) stressed 

 the important role of scientific advisory bodies to the IOC 

 in all the stages of the development outlined above. 



Captain A. Troncoso (Chile) requested the Bureau and Consulta- 

 tive Council of the IOC to support the statement in Resolu- 

 tion 24l3 of the General Assembly that the intergovernmental 

 organizations J and among these the IOC, support the idea of 

 promoting and giving technical assistance to the developing 

 countries when they so request for the exploitation and 

 conservation of the living resources of the sea. He was 

 supported by Ambassador D. L. McKernan (USA) and Professor 

 Muromtsev (USSR) who urged that the program of mutual 

 assistance of the IOC be revitalized and strengthened (see 

 Recommendation 9-1) • 



Ambassador McKernan spoke of the significance of UN Resolu- 

 tion 24l4 (XXIII) which endorsed the concept of the long-term 

 coordinated programme of international cooperation of which 

 the International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) will be 

 the initial acceleration phase, and he noted the Resolution 

 was confirmation of the IOC's long-established plans. The 

 discussion which followed involved the United Kingdom, USSR, 

 USA and representatives of SCOR and UN and touched largely 

 on the proposed timetable and modalities of work in connection 

 with the operative paragraph of UN Resolution 24l4 (XXIII) 

 (see page 56, Annex l). 



Ambassador McKernan proposed that an IOC working group be 

 established in compliance with IOC Bureau recommendation 8.18 

 to consider national proposals as regards the scope and con- 

 tent of the expanded program. He suggested that prior to 

 the meeting of this Working Group, all the Members of the UN 



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