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INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY (ISBA):
The ISBA will resume
its first session from 27 February - 17 March 1995, and again on 24
July - 4 August 1995. Both meetings will be in Kingston, Jamaica. These
sessions will address the adoption of rules of procedure, elections of
officers of the ISBA Assembly and the head of the Secretariat, and
creation of the Council and the Finance Committee. Responsibility for
oversight of seabed mining will be transferred from the UN Office of
Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea to the ISBA after the Secretariat is
established. With the adoption of the rules of procedure, watch for the
beginning of NGO participation in the ISBA process.