1. The General Assembly of the United Nations, by resolution 1105 (XI) of 21 February 1957,[1] decided to convene an international conference of plenipotentiaries to examine the law of the sea, taking account not only of the legal but also of the technical, biological, economic and political aspects of the problem, and to embody the results of its work in one or more international conventions or such other instruments as it might deem appropriate. The General Assembly also recommended that the conference should study the question of free access to the sea of land-locked countries, as established by international practice or treaties.
2. The United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea met at the European Office of the United Nations at Geneva from 24 February to 27 April 1958.
3. The Governments of the following eighty-six States were represented at the Conference:
Afghanistan
Albania
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burma
Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
Cambodia
Canada
Ceylon
Chile
China
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Federation of Malaya
Finland
France
Federal Republic of Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
- ↑ United Nations, Official Records of the General Assembly, Eleventh Session, Supplement No. 17 (A/3572), p. 54.
