International Organizations and the Law of the Sea 1985

Now in its 18th year, the NILOS Documentary Yearbook provides the reader

with an excellent collection of documents related to ocean affairs and the

law of the sea, issued each year by organizations, organs and bodies of the

United Nations system. Documents of the UN General Assembly and Security

Council, Meeting of States Parties to the UN Law of the Sea Convention,

CLCS, ISBA, ITLOS, Follow-ups to the UN Fish Stocks and Small Island States

Conferences, WSSD, ECOSOC, UNEP and UNCTAD are reproduced first, followed by

the documents of FAO, IAEA, IMO and UNESCO/IOC.

As in the previous volumes, documents which were issued in the course of

2002 are reproduced while other relevant documents are listed.

The NILOS Documentary Yearbook has proved to be of invaluable assistance in

facilitating access of the international community of scholars and

practitioners in ocean affairs and the law of the sea to essential

documentation. The entry of the 1982 UN Law of the Sea Convention into force

in 1994 and of the Part XI Agreement in 1996, as well as of the UN Fish

Stocks Agreement in 2001, coupled with the ongoing follow-up to review of the UNCED Agenda 21 by the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit, make continuation of this assistance of

particular significance in the years to come.

The members of the Yearbook's Advisory Board are: Judges Abdul Koroma and

Shigeru Oda of the ICJ, UNDOALOS Director Dr. Vladimir Golitsyn, ITLOS

President Dolliver Nelson and Judges Thomas Mensah and Tullio Treves, as

well as Rosalie Balkin, Edward Brown, Bernard Oxman and Shabtai Rosenne.