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United Nations: Convention on the Law of the Non–Navigational Uses of International Watercourses

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Extract

The present Convention applies to uses of international watercourses and of their waters for purposes other than navigation and to measures of protection, preservation and management related to the uses of those watercourses and their waters.

The uses of international watercourses for navigation is not within the scope of the present Convention except insofar as other uses affect navigation or are affected by navigation.

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Treaties and Agreements
Information
International Legal Materials , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , May 1997 , pp. 700 - 720
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1997

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* Reproduced from United Nations Document A/51/869, April 11, 1997, which is the Report of the Sixth Committee convening as the Working Group of the Whole at its second session. The Working Group of the Sixth Committee held its second session from March 24 to April 4, 1997; for the report of the Sixth Committee on the work of the Working Group at its first session (October 7 to 25,1996), see UN Document A/51/624. At the second session, the Chairman of the Working Group of the Sixth Committee took note of understandings pertaining to the following articles of the Convention: 1; 2(c); 3; 6(l)(e); 7(2); 10; 21; 22; 23; 28; and 29. Paragraph 8 of the Report in which those understandings are noted appears at 36 I.L.M. 719 (1997), following the text of the Convention.

[On May 21, 1997, by Resolution 51/229, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses, by a vote of 103 in favor to 3 against (Burundi, China, Turkey), with 27 abstentions (Andorra, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, France, Ghana, Guatemala, India, Israel, Mali, Monaco, Mongolia, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Rwanda, Spain, Tanzania and Uzbekistan). The Convention was opened to signature on the same day, and shall remain open to signature until May 20, 2000.

[The UN Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, March 17,1992, appears at 31 I.L.M. 1312 (1992); the UN Conference on Environment and Development (Rio de Janeiro) documents, including the Rio Declaration, June 14,1992, with an Introductory Note by Edith Brown Weiss, appear at 31 I.L.M. 814 (1992); the Botswana-Mozambique-Tanzania-Zambia-Zimbabwe Agreement on the Environmentally Sound Management of the Common Zambezi River System, May 28, 1987, appears at 27 I.L.M. 1109 (1988); the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay Agreement on Parana River Projects, October 19, 1980, appears at 19 I.L.M. 615 (1980); the Bolivia-Brazil-Colombia-Ecuador-Guyana-Peru-Surinam-Venezuela Treaty for Amazonian Cooperation, July 3, 1978, appears at 17 I.L.M. 1045 (1978); the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat, February 3, 1971, appears at 11 I.L.M. 963 (1972), and the 1982 Protocol amending the Convention appears at 22 I.L.M. 698 (1983); and the Israel-Jordan-Palestinian Liberation Organization Declaration on Cooperation on Water-Related Matters, February 13, 1996, appears at 36 I.L.M. 761 (1997).

[The Bangladesh-India Treaty oh Sharing of the Ganges Waters, December 12,1996, with an Introductory Note by Philippe Sands, appears at 36 I.L.M. 519 (1997), and the India-Nepal Treaty Concerning the Integrated Development of the Mahakali River, February 12, 1996, appears at 36 I.L.M. 531 (1997).]

[For additional information contact the UN Treaty Section, Office of Legal Affairs, Secretariat Building S3200, UN Headquarters, New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. (tel.: (212) 963-5047; fax: (212) 963-3693).]