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496 Travaux préparatoires: United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime“(d) Diversion: if the vessel refuses to permit an on-board visit or if the on-boardinspection reveals that irregularities are being committed, the vessel shall be orderedto go back to the port of departure or to divert to the nearest port of a ContractingParty, designated according to article L below, and the State of which the migrants arenationals shall be informed of the outcome of the on-board visit. If the vessel fails tocomply with such order, it shall be escorted to the prescribed destination.“...“Article K“...“2. Any State Party that has undertaken any action under the terms of articlesG, H and I above shall promptly notify the flag State of its final outcome.“3. Each State Party shall designate the competent authority—or competentauthorities, where necessary—for receiving and responding to the requests referredto in articles G and H above. The designation shall be notified to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and to all the other Parties within one month of thedesignation.”“Each State Party shall:“Article L“(a) Designate as soon as possible the ports to which vessels caught in flagrantedelicto of transporting migrants can be diverted;“(b) Take control of the vessels referred to in subparagraph (a) above that arediverted to its ports in order to prevent the commission of further illegal activities;“(c) Authorize the vessel or the aircraft that is acting under article I above toredeploy in the ports designated to this end for technical purposes;“(d) Provide berthing facilities and water supplies for the port visits referred toin subparagraph (c) above.”Fourth session: 28 June-9 July 1999Rolling text (A/AC.254/4/Add.1/Rev.1)“II.Smuggling of migrants by sea“Article 7“Measures against the smuggling of migrants by sea“1. States Parties shall cooperate to the fullest extent possible to prevent andsuppress the smuggling of migrants by sea, in conformity with the international lawof the sea and all generally accepted relevant international instruments. 11The language of this provision was derived from article 17, paragraph 1, of the United Nations Convention againstIllicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988 (the 1988 Convention) (United Nations, Treaty Series,vol. 1582, No. 27627) and from paragraph 8 of the interim measures for combating unsafe practices associated with thetrafficking or transport of migrants by sea (the interim measures), approved in December 1998 by the Maritime SafetyCommittee of the International Maritime Organization (MSC/Circ.896, annex, and also reproduced in documentA/AC.254/CRP.3).