94 



UNITED NATIONS 



Distr. 

 LIMITED 



THIRD CONFERENCE ^iTrtliylW 



ON THE LAW OF THE SEA original: English 



REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE DRAFTING COMMITTEE 

 M eetings 



1. An informal intersessional meeting of the Drafting Committee was held in Hew 

 York from .12 January to 27 February 1901 in accordance with the decision taken by 

 the Conference at its lUlst meeting on 29 August 1900 1/ and on the basis of the 

 tine-table proposed by the Conference. The meeting was extended to 2 March 1981. 

 The Drafting Committee conducted an. article by article textual review of the Draft 

 Convention on the Lew of the Sea (informal Text) 2/ and directed its attention in 

 particular to: 



(l) continuing; the process of harmonization of words, expressions and 

 terminology recurring in the Draft Convention; 



(?) considering drafting and editorial points relating to the Draft 

 Convention ; and 



(3) improving concordance of the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, 

 and Spanish texts of the Draft Convention. 



2. There were 2^0 meetings of the language groups open to all delegations, 

 33 meetings of the co-ordinators of the language groups under the direction of 

 the Chairman of the Drafting Committee and 1*4 meetings of the Drafting Committee 

 as a whole. Representatives of 50 delegations participated in the meetings, and 

 the Drafting Committee maintained its previously established informal working 

 methods, but altered the procedures for the meeting of the co-ordinators of the 

 language groups under the direction of the Chairman of the Drafting Committee by 

 opening such meetings to all members of the Drifting Committee and all members of 

 the ' language groups . 



Documento.ti on 



3. The Drafting Committee had before it the Draft Convention on the Law of thr 

 Sea (informal Text): it also had before it a concordance text of the Draft 



1/ A/CONF.62/SR.l)(l, p. 15. 

 2/ A/CONF.fcywi'.lO/Rev. 3. 



81-0'Jlil; 



