U.N. Conference on Human Environment: Preparations and Prospects: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ... May 3, 4, and 5, 1972U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - 163 pages |
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Page 22 - toxic pollutants, and uniform controls over the discharge of pollutants into the ocean. For this purpose the President shall negotiate multilateral treaties, conventions, resolutions, or other agreements, and formulate, present, or support proposals at the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment and other appropriate international forums".
Page 91 - of the 1958 Convention on the High Seas which obliges states to "cooperate with the competent international organizations in taking measures for the prevention of pollution of the seas or air space above, resulting from any activities with radio-active materials or other harmful agents." In the absence of an organization of general competence in this area, however, this obligation has not yet had much significance.
Page 64 - in order to focus the attention of governments and public opinion on the importance and urgency of this question and also to identify those aspects of it that can only or best be solved through international cooperation and agreement.
Page 13 - a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the US Government should seek the agreement of other governments to a proposed treaty prohibiting the use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war or the carrying out of any research or experimentation with respect thereto.
Page 76 - International Development Association, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. We complain that the UN behaves irresponsibly. How can we expect the institution to behave responsibly if we do not behave responsibly toward it? At a time of planetary
Page 29 - this concludes my prepared statement. I will, of course, be happy to answer any questions which you or the other members of the committee may have. Senator
Page 14 - would express the sense of the Senate that the United States Government should .seek the agreement of other governments to a treaty providing for the complete cessation of any research, experimentation and use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war.
Page 14 - treaty providing for the complete cessation of any research, experimentation and use of any environmental or geophysical modification activity as a weapon of war. The text of a draft treaty is incorporated in the resolution. As
Page 82 - RICHARD N. GARDNER is the Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia University. He has served as a consultant to the secretary-general of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment on the international organizational implications of action proposals.
Page 88 - the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission for Social Development, and the Commission on the Status of Women. That solution might have more visibility and status, but it would defeat the objective of integrating environmental problems with ECOSOC's other work.