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Press Release


SEA/1625
12 August 1999


Press Release
SEA/1625


SEABED COUNCIL CONTINUES WORK ON NODULE MINING CODE; DISCUSSES EMERGENCY ORDERS, CONFIDENTIALITY OF DATA

19990812

(Received from the International Seabed Authority.)

KINGSTON, 11 August -- The Council of the International Seabed Authority, meeting in Kingston this morning, continued its consideration of the Mining Code governing exploration for polymetallic nodules in the international seabed area.