ABSTRACT
The Soviet Union and the United States are making a deal on the Indian Ocean behind the backs of the countries in that region. Twice this year they had talks, first in Moscow in June and then in Washington in September, and now it is revealed that the two are going to have a third round of talks this month with Berne, Switzerland, as the venue to restrict their naval activities in that ocean. Back in 1971, at its Twenty-sixth Session, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution called the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace by sixty-one votes, the majority of these being cast by Third World countries. However, disregarding the aspirations of the Third World countries, the two superpowers held talks on the Indian Ocean without consulting the states in the region.
