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Class Adm No Candidate Name:    Preliminary Examination Two 2009 Pre-university 3 INTERNATIONAL HISTORY, 1945-2000 PAPER 1 9731/1 Wednesday 16 September 2009 3 hours Additional materials: Answer paper READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Write your name, class and admission number in the space s at the top of this pa ge and on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue or black pen on both sides of the paper. You may use a soft pencil for any diagrams, graphs or rough working. Do not use staples, paper clips, highlighters, glue or correction fluid. Section A Answer Question 1. Section B Answer three questions from this section. At the end of the examination, fasten all your work securely together. All questions in this paper carry equal marks. __________________________________________________________________________________ This question paper consists of 4 printed pages.

__________________________________________________________________________________ This question paper consists of 4 printed pages. SECTION A: THE UNITED NATIONS AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS, 1945-2000 You must answer Question 1 UNITED NATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL LAW Source A One of the major achievements of UNCLOS was that it resolved important jurisdictional questions relating to ocean space by establishing various mar itime zones and setting out which states have the right to regulate the uses of the oceans in those zones. An associate professor at National University of Singapore and executive chairman of the Society of International Law in Singapore, in a commentary to the Straits Times, 1999. Source B The United Nations is throwing a party to which the world is invited. The cake is the oceans: Everyone is to get a chunk, no one is to be disappointed. Canada has been among the first nations to accept the invitation to sign the United Nations Convention on th e Law of the Sea. Others – most notably the United States - have declined, but at least 129 nations have accepted… Critics of the convention are not confined to the United States. Uwe Jenisch, councillor to the West German Law of the Sea delegation, said the jurisdictional boundaries set by UNCLOS w ill permit the nationalization of 35 per cent of the ocean space and 40 per cent of the ocean floor. Wr iting in NATO's 15 Countries, a Brussels-based journal, he said: "Eighty per cent of the world's fish stocks and vi rtually all of the potential marine resources of oil and gas, as well as a number of other natural resources," will become the property of a small group of states, many of which are already affl uent. UNCLOS "jeopardizes world peace by giving rise to an abundance of zone delim itation disputes, and in the long r un, by establishing two classes of states with and without marine resources." The Globe and Mail (Canada), 1984. Source C One of the more powerful achievements of the United Nations system has been the establishment of a