It is a great honour and privilege for me to take the floor at this General Assembly meeting commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the adoption and signing of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, particularly because I have had the opportunity of being able to deal with the law o…
The seventh Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea requested the President of the Meeting to attend the General Assembly debate on the item “Oceans and the law of the sea” to inform it of the work carried out during that Meeting. Therefore, permit me, in my …
The Austrian delegation is very pleased to be able to participate in this resumed forty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, which is once again dealing with the very important agenda item, "Law of the sea". I should like, first of all, to express my delegation’s most sincere appre…
The Austrian delegation is highly pleased to be able once again to make a modest contribution to the debate on the important question of the law of the sea.
I should like, first, to express my profound gratitude to the Secretary-General and his collaborators in the Division for Ocean Affairs and th…
