§ Lord KENNETasked Her Majesty's Government:
What steps they propose to take at UNCLOS III to make low-level air control systems legitimate over offshore oil fields.
§ Lord GORONWY-ROBERTSNone Her Majesty's Government do not think it necessary to seek to introduce such a provision at the Law of the Sea Conference, as they have always accepted the principle of freedom of air navigation over all waters, other than the territorial waters of a coastal State, and see no reason to depart from this principle in the case of oil fields on the high seas.