LAWS OF THE SEA
Conference Ends In Deadlock (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) GENEVA, April 28. After two months of discussion, the world conference on the law of the sea ended early today with a decision to ask the next United Nations General Assembly to consider whether another such conference should be called. The weary delegates voted a Cuban resolution to this effect, after the conference had reached deadlock on the major question of revising the breadth of territorial waters, and the corollary of the extent of sea reserved for a nation’s exclusive fishing rights. Both Britain and the United States told the conference that, as no agreement had been reached on the question of the extent of territorial waters, they would now immediately revert to their traditional three-mile limit. Sir Gerald Fitzmaurice, for Britain, said there must be a status quo for territorial waters and claims for fishing rights till after a new meeting.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28573, 30 April 1958, Page 11
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