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International co-operation for Antarctic development: the test for the Antarctic Treaty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Brian Roberts
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It has been suggested to me that I should take this opportunity to initiate discussion about the Antarctic Treaty: in particular to review how far the Treaty is meeting our present practical needs. During the forty years or more during which I have been associated with Antarctic affairs, I have seen some degree of international order evolved out of chaos; harmony has replaced discord; many apparently insoluble problems have been resolved one after another. I have seen that good co-operation and compromise can be and have been achieved repeatedly without any significant sacrifice of national autonomy and to the common advantage of all concerned.

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Polar Record , Volume 19 , Issue 119 , May 1978 , pp. 107 - 120
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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* This convention came into force for seven governments on 11 March 1978. (See Polar Record, Vol 19, No 119, p 181.)

* Now thirteen. At a Special Consultative Meeting on 29 July 1977 the twelve original signatories of the Treaty recorded their acknowledgement of Poland's consultative status.

* See footnote on p 112, and p 173 for details of Polish Antarctic activities in 1976–78.