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so as to avoid the problem of creating interpretive records 

 during consideration of Drafting Committee recommendations. 

 Virtually all of the Drafting Committee recommendations were 

 approved. A few were referred back to the Drafting Committee, 

 some of which have been reconsidered and submitted to plenary 

 and approved. 



During the session, the Drafting Committee continued its 

 work on Part XI texts. It submitted a few recommendations' on 

 the initial articles to informal plenary, which were approved. 

 That work continued in more intense fashion during the last 

 week of the session, which was devoted exclusively to the 

 Drafting Committee and its organs. 



As in the past, proposals were presented initially in 

 one of the six language groups to all Conference partici- 

 pants. If recommended by that language group, the proposal 

 was reviewed by the others. The six coordinators of the 

 language group would then meet to harmonize the positions of 

 the language groups and make recommendations to the Committee. 

 The Committee then considered texts recommended by the co- 

 ordinators. 



As of the end of the session, remaining Drafting Committee 

 work includes: 



1) A number of items still pending in the Committee and 

 in the language groups with respect to the Second and Third 

 Committee texts; 



2) The significant portions of Part XI and Annexes III 

 and IV which have, yet to be addressed, including a number of 

 the more difficult drafting problems that remain to be resolved 

 regarding, ^exts already reviewed; 



' 3>^l|^f'p^jfo^ijeV Article 1, and Parts XV, XVI and XVII, 

 which haveV-yeJt to 'j5i considered. 



DISPUTE SETTLEMENT 



*Tn'r«A^^su*^''<rere discussed among delegates during the 

 tenth sesfe.iorii soflie'y .'changes in seabed mining provisions 

 concerning 'dispute .settlement sought by some Western European 

 countries.; "^wb.dte.chhical changes in Part XV (relating to the 

 exhaUsti6& <xf »Is!>cai«« temedies in case of a seizure of a vessel 

 and the clarif lcai^i^rt of provisions relating to disputes 

 concerning maritfiriia 1 boundaries) ; and drafting changes in the 

 more than 100 arfti&ids in Part XI, Section 6, Part XV, and 

 related annexes.. 

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