Draft Articles on the Continental Shelf

A/RES/899(IX)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1955.

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5 subjects

Continental Shelf High Seas Law of the Sea Report Preparation Territorial Sea

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2 operative paragraphs

Requests the international Law Commission to devote the necessary time to the study of the regime of the high seas, the regime of territorial waters and all related problems in order to complete its work on these topics and submit its final report in time for the General Assembly to consider them as a whole, in accordance with resolution 798 (VIII), at its eleventh session;

Drcides to include the final report of the International Law Commission on these topics in the provisiona! ::tgenda for the eleventh session of the General Assembly.

14 December 1954.

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