Ocean Floor Exploration
(N.Z: Press Assn.—Copyright) NEW YORK, March 19.
Australia has endorsed the idea of an international authority over ocean-floor areas beyond the jurisdiction of coastal States.
But the Australian delegate (Mr A. H. Body) cautioned the United Nations Seabeds Committee yesterday against drafting a toodetailed list of governing principles at the outset., of world deliberations which, he said, were bound to continue for a long time to comeMr Body said the committee would be over-reaching itself if it tried at this point to cover every future contingency.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31942, 20 March 1969, Page 15
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