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UNESCO: Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2002

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The views expressed in this Note are not necessarily those of the United States Government.

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* K. Russell LaMotte is an Attorney-Adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, and was a member of the U.S. delegation to this Convention'&s negotiating sessions. The views expressed in this Note are not necessarily those of the United States Government.

1 Arts. 2 and 7, U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982 (21 ILM 1263 (1982)).

2 Arts. 303(2) and 33(1),ibid.

3 Art. 303(1),ibid.

4 Art. 149,ibid.

5 Arts. 56 and 77,ibid.

6 See The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea 1982: A Commentary, Volume 5, at 161 (Nordquist, ed.).

7 Arts. 7 and 8, UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage (41 ILM 40 (2002)).

8 Art. 15,ibid.

9 Art. 16,ibid.

10 Art. 3,ibid.

11 Art.1, ibid.

12 Art. 4,ibid.

13 Art. 14,ibid.

14 Art. 18,ibid.

15 Art. 25,ibid.

16 Art. 26,ibid.

17 Art. 27,ibid.

17 This document was reproduced and reformatted from the text appearing at the UNESCO website (visited February 25,2002)<http://www.unesco.org>.The Convention was signed by the UNESCO President of the General Conference and Director-General on November 6 2001.

1 Resolution adopted on the report of Commission IV at the 20th plenary meeting, on 2 November 2001.