Plenary Meetings of the General Assembly on 9 and 10 December 2002 Devoted to the Consideration of the Item Entitled "Oceans and the Law of the Sea" And to the Commemoration of the 20th Anniversary of the Opening of the Signature of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 25 Oceans and the law of the sea, published in 2002.

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5 subjects

Anniversaries Law of the Sea Oceans Signatures, Accessions, Ratifications Treaties

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1 operative paragraph

Decides to adopt the organizational arrangements for the plenary meetings on 9 and 10 December 2002 as outlined in the annex to the present resolution.

Annex I

Organizational arrangements for the plenary meetings of the General Assembly on 9 and 10 December 2002 devoted to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and to the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Three plenary meetings of the General Assembly shall be held on 9 and 10 December 2002, as follows:

One plenary meeting, on 9 December 2002, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., shall be devoted to the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

Two plenary meetings, on 10 December 2002, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m., shall be devoted to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”.

The list of speakers in the commemoration shall be as follows:

Dr. Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, former President of Malta, to pay special tribute to the late Ambassador Arvid Pardo of Malta;

Ambassador Tommy Koh, President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea;

Chairpersons of the five regional groups;

Ambassador Don MacKay, President of the twelfth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

Mr. Martin Belinga-Eboutou, President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority;

Mr. Satya N. Nandan, Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority;

Judge Gilbert Guillaume, President of the International Court of Justice;

Judge Dolliver Nelson, President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea;

Mr. Peter F. Croker, Chairman of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.

Statements in the commemoration shall be limited to ten minutes.

Two informal panels shall be held in parallel on 9 December 2002, from 3 to 6 p.m., and shall be organized as follows:

Both informal panels shall include the participation of non-governmental organizations and academia;

The overall theme for both informal panels shall be “The Dynamism of the Convention: challenges for the present and solutions for the future”;

The sub-themes for Informal Panel 1 shall be “The International Seabed Authority: an institution to manage the common heritage of mankind”, “Limits in the seas: the need to establish secure maritime boundaries” and “Settlement of disputes: a linchpin of the Convention”; the sub-themes for Informal Panel 2 shall be “Implementation of the Convention: the challenge to ensure the effectiveness of its rules (role of non-State actors/regional approach)”, “The emerging concepts for the development and strengthening of the legal regime for the oceans (ecosystem-based approach, marine protected areas and oceans stewardship)” and “The tools for change: the amendment procedure”;

Informal Panel 1 shall be chaired by Ambassador Cristián Maquieira (Chile) and shall have the following panellists: Mr. Satya N. Nandan, Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, Mr. Rolf Fife (Norway) and Judge Hugo Caminos (Argentina), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; Informal Panel 2 shall be chaired by Ambassador Hasjim Djalal (Indonesia) and shall have the following panellists: Judge José Luis Jesus (Cape Verde), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Mr. Michael Bliss (Australia) and Professor Bernard Oxman (United States of America).

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