Meeting of States Parties to the Convention

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Twenty-fifth Meeting

The twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea will be held at United Nations Headquarters from 08 to 12 June 2015.

Information for Participants.

Organization of Work (adopted on 8 June 2015).

Schedule of side-events.

List of Delegations.

DOALOS side-event presentation

The following documents have been issued:

SPLOS/L.75 - Provisional agenda

SPLOS/278 - Annual report of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for 2014

SPLOS/279 - Report of the external auditor for the financial period 2013-2014, with financial statements of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea as at 31 December 2014

SPLOS/280 - Report on budgetary matters for the financial periods 2013-2014 and 2015-2016

SPLOS/281 - Election of one member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf –– Note by the Secretary-General

SPLOS/282 - Election of one member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf –– List of candidates nominated by States parties –– Note by the Secretary-General (Curriculum vitae of the candidate nominated for the election of one member of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf)

SPLOS/283 - Letter dated 13 April 2015 from the Chair of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf addressed to the President of the twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties

SPLOS/284 Agenda

SPLOS/285 Credentials of representatives to the twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties

SPLOS/286 - Decision regarding the conditions of service of the members of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

SPLOS/287 - Report of the twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties

Additional documents referred to in the agenda of the twenty-fifth Meeting of States Parties:

SPLOS/260 - Note verbale dated 13 May 2013 from the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

SPLOS/260/Corr.1 - Note verbale dated 10 May 2013 from the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General, Corrigendum

SPLOS/271 - Note verbale dated 8 May 2014 from the Permanent Mission of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Irelan d to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

A/69/71/Add.1 - Oceans and the law of the sea - Report of the Secretary-General

A/70/74 - Oceans and the law of the sea - Report of the Secretary-General

Other reference documents:

SPLOS/2/Rev.4 - Rules of Procedure for Meetings of States Parties

SPLOS/201 - Arrangement for the allocation of seats on the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf

SPLOS/231 - Report of the twenty-first Meeting of States Parties (New York, 13-17 June 2011)

SPLOS/251 - Report of the twenty-second Meeting of States Parties (New York, 4-11 June 2012)

A/RES/69/245 - Oceans and the law of the sea - Resolution by the General Assembly

Secretariat contact:

Secretary of the Meeting of States Parties
Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea
Office of Legal Affairs
Room DC2-0450
United Nations
New York, New York 10017
USA

Telephone: (212) 963-3962

Facsimile: (212) 963-5847

E-mail: DOALOS

Meetings of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea