contained in Article 2. They seek to persuade countries that have not ratified the 1967 Treaty to refrain from "undertaking any procedure that allows the enforcement of provisions whose juridical omission has already been denounced." Approval was given to the comparable positions previously taken by Colombia and Ecuador at the United Nations, and they promised to work together to obtain acceptance of their position that "the geostationary orbit . . .[is] an integral part of their sovereign .. territory. ... The equatorial States have advanced the foregoing claims at meetings of the ITU and the UN. At the close of the February 1977 WARC BS they submitted a formal statement which was incorporated in the Final Protocol of the conference. In this they indicated that they were not bound by the decisions of the Conference regarding the location of geostationary satellites on the segments of the orbit over which these States exercise sovereign rights, nor the positioning of such satellites requiring the prior authorization of the equatorial countries concerned. They would also reserve the right to take whatever steps they may deem fit to preserve and secure the observance of their rights. No claims were made on either side of the geostationary orbit or for other orbits. 3.6 Consideration of the Bogota Declaration by COPUOS Such claims have not gone unnoticed, and they have been vigorously rejected by the space resource States and by signatories to the 1967 Ibid. , p. 8. ibid. , p. 8. Richard E. Butler, "World Administrative Radio Conference for Planning Broadcasting Satellite Service," 5 Journal of Space Law 97 (1977); U.N. Doc. A/AC.105/C.2/SR 273, p. 4, March 28, 1977.
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