Plenary Meetings of the General Assembly on 8 and 9 December 2022 Devoted to the Consideration of the Item Entitled "Oceans and the Law of the Sea" And to the Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Adoption and Opening for Signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 72a Oceans and the law of the sea, published in 2022.

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Anniversaries Conferences Law of the Sea Treaties

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Decides to adopt the organizational arrangements for the plenary meetings on 8 and 9 December 2022 as outlined in the annex to the present resolution.

Annex I

Organizational arrangements for the plenary meetings on 8 and 9 December 2022 devoted to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and to the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption and opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Four plenary meetings of the General Assembly shall be held on 8 and 9 December, as follows:

Two plenary meetings, on 8 December 2022, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 to 6 p.m., shall be devoted to the commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption and opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;

Two plenary meetings, on 9 December 2022, 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:

President of the General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi;

Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres;

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

President of the thirty-second Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and Permanent Representative of Malta to the United Nations, Vanessa Frazier, to pay special tribute to the late Ambassador Arvid Pardo of Malta;

Chairs of the five regional groups;

Representative of the host country;

President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Joan Donoghue;

President of the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority, Satyendra Prasad;

Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority, Michael Lodge;

President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Judge Albert Hoffmann;

Chairperson of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Adnan Al-Azri.

Statements in the commemoration, including statements by delegations, shall be limited to 10 minutes.

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