The UNCTAD Convention on Conditions for Registration for Ships
In the early 1980s UNCTAD convened a conference on conditions for registration
of ships, attended by representatives from 109 states. Like other UNCTAD
conventions, this appears to have been motivated by the Group of 77 with the aim
of widening their maritime control. The final convention was agreed on 7 February
1986. Article I of the convention defines the objective as being to strengthen the