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Foreword by Satya N. Nandan, Secretary-General of
the International Seabed Authority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xl
Introduction to the 1983 edition of the Convention on the Law of the Sea
by Bernardo Zuleta, Special Representative of the Secretary-General to
the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xlvi
“International law is Irrevocably Transformed”. Statement
by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Secretary-General of the United Nations . . . . . . . . lvi
“A Constitution for the Oceans”. Remarks by Tommy T.B. Koh (Singapore),
President of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea . . . . lx
Consultations of the Secretary-General on outstanding issues relating
to the deep seabed mining provisions of the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea. Report of the Secretary-General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxv
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Satya N. Nandan, of Fiji, to the
United Nations General Assembly on 27 July 1994, introducing
draft resolution A/48/L.60 entitled “Agreement relating to
the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention
on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxii
Statement by H.E. Ambassador Madeleine Albright, of the United States
of America, to the United Nations General Assembly on 27 July 1994 . . . . . . lxxx
UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION ON
THE LAW OF THE SEA
PREAMBLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PART I. INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Article 1. Use of terms and scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
PART II. TERRITORIAL SEA AND CONTIGUOUS ZONE . . . . . 3
SECTION 1. GENERAL PROVISIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Article 2. Legal status of the territorial sea, of the air space
over the territorial sea and of its bed and subsoil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
SECTION 2. LIMITS OF THE TERRITORIAL SEA . . . . . . . . . . 3
Article 3. Breadth of the territorial sea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3