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1983 Jan 12 - 1984 Dec 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1238
Foreign policy (United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNLOSC)) (Part 2)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Jan 3
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 257
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84 Dec 12 We Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to Prime Minister Hawke (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["[as] the deep seabed mining regime... was not acceptable to us in its present form... we decided that we could not sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 10 Mo Major Foreign Policy: MT letter to President Reagan (1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention) ["three of the countries most likely to be involved in deep seabed mining have decided not to sign... There should therefore be a strong incentive for the international community as a whole to accept the need for improvements of the sort both our countries have worked for"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 17 Th Major Foreign Policy: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Law of the Sea: Merchant Shipping") [Reciprocating States Agreement; deepsea mining; risk to UK of not signing up to Convention] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 4 Tu Major Foreign Policy: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("UN Law of the Sea Convention (UNLOSC)") [MT "was... concerned about Community competence on taxation and on the Continental shelf": points addressed; Howe "proposes... to seek amendments along the lines requested by Mr Walker and Mr Lamont, and provided that these are agreed, to indicate that the UK would not make objection to Community signature"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 30 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Howe minute to MT ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Charles Powell annotation: "[Howe] recommends against the signature, but in favour of allowing the Community to sign"; MT requests further advice from Treasury & Energy Secretary] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Dec 3 Mo Major Foreign Policy: FCO telegram to Flash Dublin ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [Howe "notes that it is not proposed that the UK should sign... still has reservations about the idea of Community signature... [but] concludes that the balance of advantage lies with not blocking [it]"] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Feb 18 Fr Minor Foreign Policy: Caroline Stephens to Coles & Ingham (Il Geornale newspaper article about the Prime Minister) [useful for Fanfani visit] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Mar 29 Th Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 ("Provisional Understanding regarding Deep Seabed matters") ["Mr Rifkind.. would not recommend that the... [UK] should sign with the... [US] alone without further consideration of where the balance of advantage lies"; MT approves this approach] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 5 Mo Major Foreign Policy: Cabinet Office briefing for MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention: Future Options") ["the question is whether... [UK] interests would be better served... inside the Convention process as a signatory, or outside it as a non-signatory"] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Foreign Policy: Buchanan-Smith PS letter to Tim Renton PS ("UN Law of the Sea Convention") [draft paper on advantages/disadvantages to UK: proposed amendment regarding seabed mining regime] [declassified Jan 2014]
83 Mar 3 Th Major Foreign Policy: Brittan minute to MT ("United Nations Law of the Sea Convention") [comments on Pym minute of 22 Feb; "we need to obtain satisfactory improvements in the deep sea mining regime... changes will, at best, be a long process"; financial implications for UK of US non-participation] [declassified Jan 2014]
84 Nov 23 Fr Major Foreign Policy: British Maritime League letter to No.10 Policy Unit ("The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea") ["we should sign... ratification can wait for several years... with the aim of attracting the... [US] to reverse its decision not to sign"] [declassified Jan 2014]