HC Deb 22 March 1978 vol 946 cc596-7W
19. Mr. Knox

asked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs whether he is satisfied with the definition of the area to be administered by an international sea bed authority as the area beyond national jurisdicton, in the informal composite negotiating text, which is the basic document of the Third Conference on the Law of the Sea, the Seventh session of which begins on 28th March in Geneva.

Mr. Luard

Article 1, which contains the definition referred to, must be read with Article 76 which defines the continental shelf. As I stated after the sixth session, Article 76 does not include the definition of the outer edge of the continental margin which we and other States support.

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