After the Antarctic Treaty Expires...

[weskeag]

I stumbled on this interesting item about the Antarctic Treaty...

http://60south.com/music/after_treaty.htm

Comments

[selki.livejournal.com]

Wow. When does the treaty expire?

Hugs. I hope you're doing ok.

Already Expired

[weskeag.livejournal.com]

> Wow. When does the treaty expire?

It's already expired.

But the treaty (see the links to the treaty itself and related conventions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctic_Treaty ) says that a "review of treaty operations" can be held 30 years from initial signature of the treaty...

No such "review" has yet been held...

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Also any signatory is apparently allowed to back out of the treaty on 2 years notice.

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As far as I know, all State Parties currently support the treaty and related conventions as they stand.

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The US link for the treaty (and current US policy) is: http://www.nsf.gov/od/opp/antarct/anttrty.htm


> Hugs. I hope you're doing ok.

Pretty well. Houston seems to be the City of the Possible, at least so far.

Re: Already Expired

[selki.livejournal.com]

all State Parties currently support the treaty and related conventions as they stand.

So far so good, I guess.

Pretty well. Houston seems to be the City of the Possible, at least so far.

I'm so glad!

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Cool beans!

Unsure whether I'll be able to get out to Houston next weekend, though - haven't gotten any response to my request to swap on-call...