A/RES/52/251. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 1998

• Resolution Number: A/RES/52/251
• Year: 1998
• Session: 52nd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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A/RES/52/251

15 September 1998

Fifty-second session

Agenda item 39 (a)

RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/52/L.80 and Add.1)]

52/251. Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between the United Nations

and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

The General Assembly,

Recalling its resolution 51/34 of 9 December 1996 in which, inter alia, it invited the Secretary-

General to take steps to conclude a relationship agreement with the International Tribunal for the Law of

the Sea,

Noting the decision of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea taken at its fifth session on

12 March 1998 to approve the Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between the United Nations

and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea signed on 18 December 1997 by the Secretary-

General of the United Nations and the President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea,

Noting also that the eighth Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law

of the Sea, held in New York from 18 to 22 May 1998, took note with appreciation of the report of the

International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, including paragraphs 67 and 68, relating to the conclusion

of the Agreement on Cooperation and Relationship between the United Nations and the International

Tribunal for the Law of the Sea,1

1SPLOS/31, paras. 13 and 14, and SPLOS/27.

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