Meeting of States Parties to the Convention

Updated 05 August 2017

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

Twenty-seventh Meeting (12 to 16 June 2017)

Notification: Convening of the twenty-seventh Meeting of States Parties - English | French

Provisional organization of work.- Note: this table is tentative and subject to change. It will be before the Meeting of States Parties for approval under agenda item 7, on the first day of the meeting.

Side events:

Schedule of side events

Choice of procedure under article 287 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

List of Delegations

The following documents have been issued:

SPLOS/L.78 - Provisional agenda

SPLOS/304 - Annual report of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea for 2016

SPLOS/305 - Report of the external auditor for the financial period 2015-2016, with financial statements of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea as at 31 December 2016 - Presented by the Tribunal

SPLOS/306 - Report on budgetary matters for the financial period 2015-2016

SPLOS/307 - Election of seven members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - Note by the Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

SPLOS/308 - Election of seven members of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - List of candidates nominated by States parties - Note by the Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

SPLOS/309 - Curricula vitae of candidates nominated by States Parties for election to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea - Note by the Registrar of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

SPLOS/CRP.1 - Complete curricula vitae of candidates nominated by States Parties for election to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, including list of publications (English | Français)

SPLOS/310 - Letter dated 17 April 2017 from the Chair of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf addressed to the President of the twenty-seventh Meeting of States Parties

SPLOS/311 - Election of the twenty-one members of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - Note by the Secretary-General

SPLOS/312 - List of candidates nominated by States parties for election to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - Note by the Secretary-General

SPLOS/312/Add.1 - Election of twenty-one members of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - List of candidates nominated by States parties: withdrawal of a candidate - Note by the Secretary-General

SPLOS/313 - Curricula vitae of candidates nominated by States Parties for election to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf - Note by the Secretary-General

SPLOS/314 - Agenda

SPLOS/315 - Credentials of representatives to the twenty-seventh Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea - Report of the Credentials Committee

SPLOS/316 - Report of the twenty-seventh meeting of the Meeting of States Parties

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

A/71/74/Add.1 - Oceans and the law of the sea - Report of the Secretary-General

A/72/70 - 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)

SPLOS/277 - Report of the twenty-fourth Meeting of States Parties (New York, 9-13 June 2014)

SPLOS/303 - Report of the twenty-sixth Meeting of States Parties (New York, 20-24 June 2016)

A/RES/71/257 - 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