In progress at UNHQ

Press Release


SG/T/2409

Secretary-General Kofi Annan, accompanied by his wife, Nane, arrived in São Paulo from New York on Saturday morning, 12 June, for a four-day visit to open the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, address a Special Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77 and hold a number of bilateral meetings, including one with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

SEA/1813
17/06/2004
Press Release
SEA/1813

AFTER LENGTHY CONSULTATIONS, STATES PARTIES TO LAW OF SEA CONVENTION


REACH CONSENSUS ON TWO PROPOSALS ON APPLICATION OF KEY ARTICLE


Difference of Views on Handling General Issues, Administrative Concerns


Following lengthy consultations and breaking a diplomatic impasse, the Meeting of States Parties to the Convention on the Law of the Sea adopted two proposals by consensus, as it continued its fourteenth session today.