Convening of a Second United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

A/RES/1307(XIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1959.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Requests the Secretary-General to invite the sary to undertake considerable preparatory work so as specialized agencies and inter-governmental bodies conto ensure reasonable probabilities of success,

cerned with the matters to be considered to send observers to the conference ;

Decides that a second international conference of plenipotentiaries on the law of the sea should be called

Requests the Secretary-General to arrange for the for the purpose of considering further the questions of necessary staff and facilities which would be required the breadth of the territorial sea and fishery limits ;

for the conference, and to present to the conference recommendations concerning its methods of work and pro-

Requests the Secretary-General to convoke the cedures, and other questions of an administrative nature; conference at the earliest convenient date in March or April 1960 at the European Office of the United Na-

Refers to the conference for its information the tions in Geneva ;

relevant records of the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea held in 1958.

Invites all States Members of the United Nations and States members of the specialized agencies to par-

10 December 1958.

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