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visions about which all visitors to the Treaty Area should be 

 aware ; 



3. They consult each other well in advance about the possibility 

 of designating at the Eighth Consultative Meeting an adequate 

 number of areas of interest to which tourists could be encouraged 

 to go, and about the criteria to be used to determine such areas; 



4. They use their best efforts to ensure that the provisions of the 

 Treaty and subsequent Recommendations relating to the conser- 

 vation of Fauna and Flora are applied in practice to all visitors 

 who are not sponsored by Consultative Parties, as well as to 

 tourists. 



VII— 5 



IMPORTATION OF LABORATORY ANIMALS AND PLANTS 



The Representatives, 

 Considering : 



(1) that harmful interference with the natural ecological sys- 

 tem may be caused by micro-organisms introduced by man for 

 exi^erimental purposes ; 



(2) Article IX of the Agreed Measures for the Conservation 

 of Antarctic Fauna and Flora; 



Recommend to their Governments that the following be added to 

 the end of paragraph (c) of Annex C, Importation of Animals and 

 Plants, of the Agreed Measures for the Conservation of Antarctic 

 Fauna and Flora : 



"including viruses, bacteria, yeasts and fungi", 



VII— 6 



ANTARTIC RESOURCES EFFECTS OF MINERAL EXPLORATION 



The Representatives, 



Recalling the provisions and principles of the Antarctic Treaty ; 



Rea^rming that it is in the interest of all mankind that the Ant- 

 arctic Treaty Area shall continue forever to be used exclusively for 

 peaceful purposes and shall not become the scene or object of inter- 

 national discord; 



Acknoiuledging that the Antarctic Treaty places a special responsi- 

 bility upon the Contracting Parties to exert appropriate efforts, con- 

 sistent with the Charter of the United Nations, to the end that no one 

 engages in any activity in the Antarctic Treaty Area contrary to the 

 principles or purposes of the Treaty ; 



Noting the technological developments in polar mineral exploration 

 and the increasing? interest in the possibility of there being exploitable 

 minerals in the Antarctic Treaty Area : 



Noting that there is a need for further study and deliberation 

 amongst the Consultative Parties ; 



Recognising that mineral exploration is likelv to raise problems of 

 an environmental nature and that the Consultative Parties should 

 assume responsibility for the protection of the environment and the 

 wise use of resources ; 



