ABSTRACT
The Convention represents a slight net gain for the world's thirty land-locked countries in its provisions for transit to and from the sea, but a disastrous loss for them in its provisions for access to the resources of the sea. Both UNCLOS III and its results have focused more attention than ever on the very real problems emanating from a country's lack of a seacoast. First, the format is improved: each item, except for United Nations documents, is now numbered, there are two indexes to aid in locating the numbered items, and the forms of periodicial entries have been improved. United Nations documents are listed in chronological order under the agencies that issued them; so are the documents issued by other intergovernmental organizations.
