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30. CIA Working Paper on Law of the Sea Negotiations

states. This proposal, which would have given such states the right to engage in research directly connected with resources—and without benefit of consent—, was met with uniform resistance by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, and Somalia. Contributing to the failure of the distinction regime to survive the New York negotiations was a lack of consensus, even among the maritime powers, on the parameters and composition of the categories proposed. Also important was the fact that these powers were not equally committed to the distinction concept. Early in th…