Des progrès considérables ont été réalisés au cours de cette période, au point où plus de 80 p. 100 des pays participant à la conférence de l'ONU à New York appuient la proposition que préconise le Canada, qui a d'ailleurs grandement collaboré à sa formulation.
It has made very substantial progress to the point at which we now have more than 80 per cent of all of the countries participating in New York at the UN conference supporting the proposal endorsed and in some respects authored by Canada for a binding convention that would give us effective rules, transparent rules to govern the ways distant water fishing fleets behave on the high seas.