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423. Memorandum From the Chairman of the Inter-Agency Task Force on the Law of the Sea ( Stevenson ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Kissinger )

st summer’s meeting of the Seabeds Committee the Organization of African Unity has officially called for an extension of fishing limits to where a water depth of 600 meters is reached. At the meeting of the Afro-Asian Legal Consultative Committee in Lagos last month, the developing countries continued to indicate their support for a 200-mile exclusive resource zone, although certain of them indicated that if the zonal concept were accepted they would be favorably disposed to accept international elements such as international standards for access and license fees. The U.S. draft fisheries arti…