U.S. refusal
The United States says that it will not contribute to the costs of running the office of the United Nations Special Commissioner for Law of the Sea. The United States quota for the Sea Law office would be deducted from the over-all U.S. contribution to the United Nations budget. The decision was announced yesterday after the U.N. General Assembly assigned $6.3 million for 1984-85 financing of the office. The International Convention on the Law of the Sea was signed by 139 States just a year ago. The United States did not sign — not because Washington opposed the convention’s rules for the world’s oceans, seas and straits but because it considered universal sharing of the mineral wealth on the sea-bed as being contrary to U.S. economic interests.
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