Background Release

The thirty-third Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will convene at United Nations Headquarters from 12 to 16 June.

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold the 2023 Pacific Regional Seminar in Bali, Indonesia, from 24 to 26 May within the framework of the fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2021-2030).

The Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks will be resumed from 22 to 26 May at United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-seventh session from 23 January to 10 March.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-sixth session from 5 October to 22 November.  There will be no plenary part during the session and its seven weeks will be devoted entirely to the technical examination of submissions at the geographic information system laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.

The new Permanent Representative of Estonia to the United Nations, Rein Tammsaar, presented his credentials to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today.

The Intergovernmental Conference on an international legally binding instrument under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction will hold a fifth session from 15 to 26 August.

The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its fifty-fifth session from 5 July to 19 August.

The thirty-second Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will convene, in person, at United Nations Headquarters from 13 to 17 June 2022.

The Special Committee on Decolonization will hold the 2022 Pacific Regional Seminar in Castries, Saint Lucia, from 11 to 13 May 2022 within the framework of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism (2021-2030).