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Common Heritage or Common Burden? The United States Position on the Development of a Regime for Deep Sea-Bed Mining in the Law of the Sea Convention. By Markus G. Schmidt. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. xiv, 366. Indexes.

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Louise de la Fayette
Louise de la Fayette*
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Department of External Affairs and International Trade, Canada
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , January 1992 , pp. 212 - 216
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1992

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1 Ironically, although the United States feared that the international regime for seabed mining would be used as a model for a new regime in Antarctica, the Antarctic Minerals Convention of 1988, approved by the United States, is in many ways more stringent in its regulations and more complex in its bureaucratic structure. Moreover, the provisions on environmental protection in the Antarctic Convention have served as a model for those in the draft seabed mining code. Draft Regulations on Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment from Activities in the Area, UN Doc. LOS/PCN/3/WP.6/Add.5 (1990). For a discussion, see Nollkaemper, Deep seabed mining and the protection of the marine environment, 15 Marine Pol’y 55 (1991). As a result of a campaign by certain states to ban mining entirely and to turn Antarctica into a world park, it now appears that states parties to the Convention, including the United States, will conclude a protocol banning mining for 50 years. Fin. Times (London), Apr. 30, 1991, at 8.

2 Pontecorvo, Musing about Deep Seabed Mining, Why What We Don’t Know Can Hurt Us, 21 Ocean Dev. & Int’l. L 117 (1990); Dubs, Minerals of the Deep Sea: Myth and Reality, in The New Order of the Oceans 85 (G. Pontecorvo ed. 1986).

3 The Law of the Sea, Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. A/44/650, at 39–40 (1989); Nandan, The 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea: at a Crossroad, 20 Ocean Dev. & Int’l L. 515 (1989).

4 The Law of the Sea, Report of the Secretary-General, UN Doc. A/45/721, at 8 (1990).

5 Informal Consultations Hosted by the UN Secretary-General, Oceans Pol’y News, March–April 1991, at 3; statements by L. Dolliver Nelson of the UN Office for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, and UN Under-Secretary-General Satya Nandan, at the Center for Ocean Law and Policy Seminar, id. at 5, 7.