Correspondence on the administration of the seabed outside territorial limits and proposed United Nations action on exploitation of the seabed, with correspondents including: [William] Launcelot Fleming, Bishop of Norwich, on trying to raise a Question in the House of Lords on the issue (3); Lord Hunt on the timing of a debate in the House of Lords.

Also includes: minutes of a meeting of the Parliamentary Group for World Government, December 1969, on the second interim report of the Seabed Resources Committee; recommendations of the UN First Committee on the reservation of the seabed for exclusively peaceful purposes in the interests of mankind; copy of a speech by David Hildyard [British Minister and Alternate UK Representative to the UN] on the report of the First Committee.