UN General Assembly
1958

150. As I mentioned at the commencement of my statement, Iceland now feels an urgent need to make its voice heard in the general debate, particularly in reference to item 59 on the agenda of the General Assembly, which bears the title "Question of convening a second United Nations conference on the law of the sea”. In this connexion I would be failing in my duty if I did not raise my voice here in regard to the problem of fishing in Icelandic waters, a problem which is of such a nature that it has resulted in a most serious dispute between two friendly Member nations.