will require the continuous operation for many 

 years of many highly equipped vessels and an 

 international navigation network. 



Oceanographic research, too, often calls for a 

 diversity of scientific competence and facilities 

 which is beyond the capacity of any one nation. 



Finally, if all nations are to benefit from the 

 research done by each in particular fields of 

 oceanography, such as the study of primary 

 organic production in the oceans, they must agree 

 on the use of comparable methods of research. 



For all these reasons, the panel approves the 

 many initiatives which the United States has taken 

 to encourage international scientific collaboration 

 and establish an international data exchange and 

 processing system.^ ^ 



We also endorse the principles which the United 

 States Representative presented to the United 

 Nations Ad Hoc Committee for adoption by the 

 United Nations General Assembly in order to 

 encourage international cooperation in the scien- 

 tific investigation of the deep ocean floor, i.e., the 

 bed of the high seas beyond the outer limits of the 

 continental shelf and its subsoil. 



These principles would call upon States to (a) 

 disseminate, in a timely fashion, plans for and 

 results of national scientific programs concerning 

 the deep ocean floor; (b) encourage their nationals 

 to follow similar practices concerning dissemina- 

 tion of such information; and (c) encourage 

 cooperative scientific activities regarding the deep 

 ocean floor by personnel of different states.^ ^ 



See generally, Report of the UN Secretary -General, 

 Marine Science and Technology: Survey and Proposals 

 74-85, Annex XIII; and ReveUe, Man and the Sea in the 

 21st Century (Unpublished manuscript 1968). 



'^ Draft Resolution Containing Statement of Principles 

 Concerning The Deep Ocean Floor, at 4, Press Release 

 USUN-107 (68), June 28, 1968. 



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