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Interesting that I keep coming across Agenda 21 in L.O.S.T.

During the extensive negotiations of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21, "Protection of oceans, all kinds of seas including enclosed and semi-enclosed seas, coastal areas and the protection, rational use and development of their living resources," the issue of high seas fisheries proved to be among the most difficult. At the conclusion of PrepCom III, which was held in August 1991 in Geneva, straddling and highly-migratory fish stocks were one of five unresolved issues in the section on living marine resources. The issue proved so divisive that the Secretariat did not prepare text on high seas fisheries in its draft of Chapter 17 of Agenda 21 for the start of PrepCom IV, held in March 1992 in New York. For nearly four of the five weeks of PrepCom IV a contact group on marine living resources (Programme Areas C and D of Chapter 17) met behind closed doors and attempted to reach consensus. By the conclusion of PrepCom IV, consensus remained elusive and the Plenary adopted the Oceans chapter with brackets around the paragraphs on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks.

I'm still looking for the document. There are links with links. I don't think we're supposed to find them. At some meetings there is no written record, only audio.

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3. With regard to the implementation of Annex III, article
13, paragraph 2, of
the Convention, the fee for processing applications for
approval of a plan of
work limited to one phase, either the exploration phase or the
exploitation
phase, shall be US$ 250,000.

[Calpernia]

I’m not at my desk (homework time); but tidbit on Agenda 21. It is short script for 2010.

That is why this election is so important. The left needs someone elected that will sign the remaining treaties. They all need to be ratified by 2010.