Before introducing the three draft resolutions that the Assembly is to consider today, I would like to make a few remarks in my capacity as President of the Meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Last year was a very special year for the law of the se…
No single subject has more consistently preoccupied the General Assembly throughout its 50 years of existence than the international law of the sea.
This is a very special year for the Assembly as it considers the item “Law of the sea”, for it marks the fulfilment of a longstanding aspiration of th…
The adoption in 1982 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was a momentous occasion in the history of international law and international relations. That event was all the more
significant in that the Convention, for the most part, was the result of consensus or broad agreement amo…
