9. INDIAN OCEAN SANCTUARY

(from "Chairman's Report of the Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting")


The Chairman of the Scientific Committee reported that in view of the Commission's decisions that any review meeting on the Indian Ocean Sanctuary should be preceded by a scientific meeting, the Scientific Committee asked that the Commission should inform it when it wishes that meeting to be held, in order that preparations can be made.

Seychelles recalled its invitation last year to hold the scientific meeting in the next twelve months. It proposed that the review meeting required by Schedule paragraph 7 should be held in 1986, immediately before the Annual Meeting of the Commission. The Scientific Review Meeting could be held early in 1986. The Seychelles is still prepared to host the latter meeting, but suggested that it should consult with the Indian Ocean states which are members of the IWC.

The Technical Committee agreed and the Commissiun accepted this proposal.

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