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Contents iii Introductory Note This Compendium of Basic Documents on the Law of the Sea contains the text of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed at Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 10 December 1982, as well as the text of the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, adopted by the General Assembly on 28 July 1994, and of the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks of 1995. In addition, the Compendium includes the official text of the Regulations on Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Nodules in the Area, approved by the Assembly of the International Seabed Authority on 13 July 2000. Also included are the Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, containing an official account, approved and signed by the participants, of the proceedings leading to the adoption of the Convention (1973-1982), and the four resolutions adopted by the Conference and related to the Convention, and the Final Act of the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (1993-1995). These texts are supplemented by a completely revised subject index to the Convention, its nine annexes and associated resolutions, the two implementing Agreements and the Regulations on Prospecting and Exploration for Polymetallic Nodules in the Area. Explanatory material consists of an introduction by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations (reproduced from the 1983 edition of the Convention published by the United Nations) and statements delivered at the closing session of the Conference by its President and by the Secretary-General as well as the Report of the Secretary-General on outstanding issues relating to the deep seabed mining provisions of the Convention and statements delivered in the General Assembly upon the adoption of the 1994 Agreement. In addition, relevant General Assembly resolutions have been included. The main contents of this Compendium are as follows: Table of contents Introduction and statements United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea General Assembly resolution 48/263 and the Agreement relating to the implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic nodules in the Area Agreement for the implementation of the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks
iv Contents Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea Final Act of the United Nations Conference on the conservation and management of straddling fish stocks and highly migratory fish stocks Resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly List of signatories of the Convention Chronology Consolidated Index
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384 Chronology Romania Rwanda Saint
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394 Subject Index CONSOLIDATED INDE
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