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Arvid Pardo (February 12,

1914 – June 19, 1999) was a Maltese and Swedish diplomat, scholar, and university professor. He

is known as the "Father of the Law of the Sea Conference". Pardo was

born in Rome. His Maltese father Guido, who worked for the International Labour

Organization, died of typhus while on a relief mission in the Soviet Union in 1922. His Swedish mother died a year

later during an appendectomy and his

brother was killed in an automobile accident. He became the ward of a friend of his father, Italian diplomat Bernardo Attolico, who served as Ambassador to Brazil, the Soviet Union, Germany and the Vatican. Attolico sent him to school at Collegio

Mondragone, Frascati, and the young Pardo spent his

vacations with Attolico at the latter's various diplomatic posts. Pardo and knew German fairly well. As a student in pre-war Rome, he met

Margit Claeson, a Swedish textile designer. In 1947, once his finances were

secure, he went to Sweden to find her (they had lost touch during the war) and

married her. They had three children: Christina (1949, m. Menez), Lars (1951)

and David (1952), all educated in England. His wife and children all outlived

him.  Pardo graduated in international law at

the University of Rome in

1939. When World War II began,

he commenced underground activities as an anti-Fascist organizer but was arrested by the Italian

authorities in 1939. After the fall of Benito Mussolini's government, he was freed in September 1943,

but was re-arrested at once by the Gestapo and kept in Alexanderplatz and Charlottenburg

Prisons in Berlin under a sentence of death. In 1945, as the Red Army approached Berlin, the Swiss officials and the International

Committee of the Red Cross arranged his release. After the

Soviets entered Berlin, Pardo was arrested again and interrogated. Once

released, he crossed the Elbe, walking to the Allied lines, and made

contact with British and American forces. He was sent to London, where he arrived penniless. It first Pardo worked as a

dishwasher and waiter in a London restaurant chain until he sought out a friend

of his father's, David Owen, who was then helping to set up the United Nations in London. Owen hired him as an assistant

in the documentary section, and despite holding a doctorate, he worked as a

junior clerk in charge of archives in 1945–6. He then served in the Department of Trusteeship

and Non-Self-Governing Territories until 1960. He then joined

the Secretariat of the Technical Assistance Board (forerunner of the UNDP)

and served as deputy representative in Nigeria and Ecuador, where he was stationed before being selected in 1964

as the first Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations by the

newly independent country that he had visited only briefly during his life.[ During his time as UN

delegate, which ended in 1971 after Dom Mintoff's return to office, Pardo's lasting achievement

was his work to reform the law of the sea. On 1 November 1967, he made an

electrifying speech before the General Assembly calling

for international regulations to ensure peace at sea, to prevent further pollution

and to protect ocean resources. He proposed that the seabed constitutes part of

the common heritage of mankind,

a phrase that appears in Article 136 of the United Nations Convention on the

Law of the Sea,[2] and asked that some of the sea's wealth be used

to bankroll a fund that would help close the gap between rich and poor nations.

It was Pardo who initiated the fifteen-year process that would culminate in

1982, when the Convention was opened for signatures, and in the early years, he

continued a dedicated effort to promote the issue, for instance helping achieve

near-unanimous passage of GA Resolution 2749 on December 17, 1970. This

resolution embodied principles regarding the seabed and its resources that

would later be incorporated into the Convention.[4] Pardo was unhappy with the final instrument's

provision for an Exclusive Economic Zone,

lamenting that the common heritage of mankind had been whittled down to "a

few fish and a little seaweed". 

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