In progress at UNHQ

Oceans and Law of the Sea


SEA/1990
The three bodies created to implement the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — known as the “constitution for the oceans” — were increasingly being called upon to resolve disputes between States and to expand maritime jurisprudence, said delegates today as the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention began its twenty-third annual session.
SEA/1987
NEW YORK, 15 March (Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs) ― The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its thirty-first session at United Nations Headquarters from 21 January to 8 March 2013. The thirty-first session included two weeks of plenary meetings and five weeks devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the geographic information systems laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.
SEA/1986
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf will hold its thirty-first session from 21 January to 8 March 2013. The plenary segments of the session will be held from 28 January to 1 February and from 25 February to 1 March, while the remainder of the time will be devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information Systems laboratories and other technical facilities of the Division.
SEA/1982
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf held its thirtieth session at United Nations Headquarters from 30 July to 24 August 2012. The period from 13 August to 24 August 2012 was devoted to the technical examination of submissions at the Geographic Information Systems facilities of the Division.
SEA/1978
The Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea and the Korea Maritime Institute, in cooperation with the Organizing Committee for Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea, are organizing the year’s Yeosu International Conference in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
SEA/1975
The twenty-second Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea concluded its annual session today with the approval of a 3 per cent reduction in the proposed budget of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for the biennium 2013-2014, bringing the total figure to €21,239,130, an increase of just over 4 per cent from the Tribunal’s previous budget.