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President's Letter to Senate Transmitting the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears
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President's Letter to Senate Transmitting the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears
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Digitized from Box 18 of the White House Press Releases at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NOVEMBER 29, 1975
Office of the White House Press Secretary
THE WHITE HOUSE
TO THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES:
I am pleased to transmit for the Senate's advice and
consent to ratification the Agreement on the Conservation
of Polar Bears, done at Oslo, November 15, 1973.
I am also transmitting, for the information of the
Senate, the report of the Department of State with respect
to the agreement.
This agreement, negotiated by the five circumpolar
nations, the United States, Canada, Denmark, Norway and
the Soviet Union, provides a plan of protection for polar
bears consisting of a prohibition of hunting, killing or
capturing the mammals subject to specified exceptions. It
also provides for the countries involved to cooperate and
consult with each other on research involving management
and conservation of polar bears.
This agreement implements one of the mandates of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 which, in Section 108,
calls for development of bilateral or multilateral agree-
ments for the protection of marine mammals, including polar
bears. No legislation is necessary to implement the agree-
ment, since the protections of the Marine Mammal Protection
Act of 1972 exceed the requirements of the agreement.
In addition to being the first international agreement
to focus on the conservation of polar bears, this agreement
is the first to be negotiated by the circumpolar nations
exclusively. I recommend that the Senate give early and
favorable consideration to this agreement.
GERALD R. FORD
THE WHITE HOUSE,
NOVEMBER 28, 1975
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