Four conventions and an optional protocol formulated at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea [electronic resource] : message from the President of the United States transmitting four conventions on the law of the sea and an optional protocol of signature concerning the compulsory settlement of disputes; which agreements were formulated at the United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, held at Geneva from February 24 to April 27, 1958; were dated at Geneva on April 29, 1958, and were signed on behalf of the United States of America on September 15, 1958, and on behalf of a number of other states.