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by 1. Decision-making by consensus is a well-established practice in the United Nations organs and committees, as well as in other international organizations 1. Only in the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea Z, ho- wever, consensus has been given official status in the rules of procedure of a diplomatic Conference aimed at codifying a sizable part of international law 3. The problems the Law of the sea Conference had to face while devising its own decision-making procedures were twofold. On the one hand, as in all conferences, a mechanism was to be provided in order to reach decisions on procedural as well as on substantive matters, without allowing too much room for delaying tactics and vetoes by minorities. On the other hand, the very nature of the subject-matter of the Conference had its own exigencies pointing in a different direction. Majorities and minorities, as well as traditional groupings of States, have a particular meaning as far as the law of the sea is concerned'. It is difficult to deny that a convention on the law of the sea will not be workable unless the small minority of States whose flag is flown by
The Italian Yearbook of International Law Online – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1976
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