The United Nations and Antarctica 1993

Continuing controversy about the UN's role in Antarctica

Bibliographic Data

ID9224944
AuthorsPeter J Beck (0009-0004-4155-4816, Kingston University, corresponding author)
Year1994
Volume30
Issue175
Pages257-264
Publication date1994-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolar Record (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-2474 • E-ISSN: 1475-3057
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0032247400024517
OpenAlexW1965422236
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited5

The eleventh successive annual United Nations discussion on the ‘Question of Antarctica’ took place at the close of 1993. In November the UN First Committee, guided by two reports from the UN Secretary-General, adopted a further resolution, which was adopted in December by the General Assembly as resolution A48/80. As usual, UN members, although displaying evidence of a wider international recognition of the regime's merits, proved critical of the Antarctic Treaty System. By contrast, Antarctic Treaty Parties (ATPs) remained reluctant to allow the UN the type of role in Antarctica advocated by their critics. ATPs, following the course adopted in 1985, still refused either to participate in the UN discussions or to vote. As a result, it proved impossible yet again to secure a consensus about either the ‘Question of Antarctica’ in general or the UN's role in Antarctica in particular. One significant advance in 1993 concerned the end of demands advanced since 1985 for South Africa's exclusion from Antarctic meetings, a change prompted by the dismantlement of the apartheid regime. The ‘Question of Antarctica’ is scheduled to be placed on the UN agenda in 1994

Antarctic treaty · Eleventh · General assembly · Political science · Treaty · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · International Maritime Law Issues · Law · Polar Research and Ecology

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