FOREIGN RELATIONS, 1950, VOLUME I


Dominican Republic
  T=3 mi.
Ecuador
  T=3mi.; C = 12 mi. for security and fiscal laws, and 15 mi. for
fishing.
El Salvador
  T-=3.mi.; C7-12 mi., security, fiscal laws (200 mi. proposed, 19.50
draft constitution),.
Guatemala
  T = 12 Mi.. (decree, June 17,1940)
Haiti~
  T= ? (No information)
Holnduras
  T7= 12 kin. (6.49 naut. mi.)
ilexico
  T=9 m9   ; C=.ontinental shelf (to 200 meters depth at low tide).
Nicaragua
  T=3M     (

Panama
  T = 3 mi.; C continental shelf for fishing purposes.
Peru
  T =3 mi.; C=200 mi. for control and protectio"n oft national re-
sources in continental and insular seas.
United States
  T= 3 mi.; C=12 mi. (in tariff acts since 1790)
Uruguay
  T =?? (No information)
Venezuela
  T=3 mi.; C=12 mi. for "vigilance, security and protection of
'national interests".
   [Here follows brief discussion of a "world map" being compiled
in
the Department, showing national claims to territorial seas and ad-
jacent waters. The missions were informed that:
  "It will be appreciated that never before have so many conflicting
and inconsistent national claims in adjacent seas been asserted by
coastal states throughout the world. Current studies are therefore
being conducted in order .. to reduce the area of conflict! and to
facilitate commerce by sea and air, and also reasonable developmIeiit
of resources of the sea and-the subsoil of the seabed."]


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