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13/ 
ference by a vote of 48 to 20, with two abstentions, — 
Representatives of our Nation and 45 others then signed the Con- 
vention. 
7. 
Article 11 of the Convention provided that it should come into 
force on the 30th day following deposit of the 22nd ratification or ac- 
cession with the United Nations. This required until June 10, 1964. 14/ 
The State Department submitted the Convention to the President on 
September 2, 1959. It told him that the Convention "combines both the depth 
and exploitability tests as did the International Law Commission's draft. '' —= 
In submitting the Convention to the Senate in 1960 the Department was 
even more explicit. Its spokesman was Arthur H. Dean, who had been chair- 
man .of the United States delegation at the 1958 conference. He told the Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations: 
"The clause which protects the right to utilize advances in 
- technology at greater depths beneath the oceans was supported by 
the United States and was in keeping with the inter-American con- 
clusions at Ciudad Trujillo in 1956. It was included in the I,L.C. 
1956 draft. ''+°/ (Emphasis added. ) 
The Senate accordingly gave its consent, and the President ratified 
the Convention March 24, 1961. L2/ 
13/ Official Records of U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea, Vol. Il: 
Plenary Meetings, U.N. Doc. A/Conf. 13/38 (1958), p. 13. 
14/ See Proclamation of President Johnson so stating, May 25, 1964; T.1.A.S. 
.5578, p.55. Article 13 provides that after expiration of five years from the 
date on which the convention enters into force, a request for revision may be 
made by any contracting party by notice in writing to the Secretary General of 
the United Nations. This date is thus June 10, 1969. 
15/ Letter of Acting Secretary of State Dillon transmitting the Convention to 
President Eisenhower, September 2, 1959. 
16/ Hearings before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, ''Conventions 
on the Law of the Séa, '' 86 Cong., 2d Sess., Jan. 20, 1960, pp. 108-09. 
I?/ See T.1.A.S. 5578. 
