A/RES/57/33 United Nations Distr.: General 22 November 2002 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 25 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [without reference to a Main Committee (A/57/L.19 and Add.1)] 57/33. Plenary meetings of the General Assembly on 9 and 10 December 2002 devoted to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and to the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea The General Assembly, Recalling that the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1 was opened for signature on 10 December 1982, Recognizing the personalities who served as officers of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea or who otherwise contributed untiringly towards the conclusion of the Convention and its adoption on 30 April 1982, Recalling its resolution 56/12 of 28 November 2001, in which it decided to devote two days of plenary meetings at its fifty-seventh session, on 9 and 10 December 2002, to the consideration of the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea” and the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Convention, and encouraged Member States and observers to be represented at the highest possible level, Decides to adopt the organizational arrangements for the plenary meetings on 9 and 10 December 2002 as outlined in the annex to the present resolution. 52nd plenary meeting 19 November 2002 _______________ 1 See The Law of the Sea: Official Texts of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 and of the Agreement relating to the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 with Index and Excerpts from the Final Act of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.V.10). 02 53989