Britain is opposed to any extension of territorial waters in the Gulf of Akaba or any other interference with shipping or the right of innocent passage through the strait, it was indicated here today by Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Britain’s Attorney General and head of its delegation to the 80-nation conference on the freedom of the seas here.
Sir Reginald, in a lengthy exposition of the British position, noted that extension by individual nations of the limits of territorial waters involved a restriction of the freedom of other nations and leads to friction among nations. Asked whether his views could be applied to the Gulf of Akaba, where Saudi Arabia has announced an extension of its territorial limits in an attempt to hamstring Israeli use of the waterway, the British Attorney General said: “Yes.”
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