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of the boundary between the area of exclusive sovereign rights 
with respect to natural resources of he seabed and subsoil 
and the deep ocean floor beyond the limits of national juris- 
diction. 
(2) That within the area of exclusive sovereign 
rights adjacent to the United States, the interests of the 
United States in the natural resources of the submarine areas 
be protected to the full extent peraeted by the 1958 Conven- 
tion on the Continental Shelf. 
(3) That on the basis of the information now 
available, the most desirable long-range goal for a regime to 
govern exploration and development of the mineral resources 
of the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil beyond the limits 
of national jurisdiction ge not the creation of a supersov- 
ereignty with power to grant or deny mineral concessions, but 
rather agreement upon norms of conduct designed to minimize 
conflicts between sovereigns which undertake such exploration 
and development. 
(4) That the resources of the bed and subsoil of 
the deep sea, beyond the limits cf national surmeaieeen mee 
the subject of study and consultation with a view to formula- 
ting rules and practices to be observed by common restraint 
or by other arrangements which will assure, inter alia, 
