Amendments to IMO Convention will enlarge IMO Council to 52 from 40 Member States. Member States of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) are being urged to accept amendments to the IMO Convention as soon as possible - in order to expand the size of the IMO Council to 52, to reflect the increased membership of IMO. The text of the amendments, which were adopted by the IMO Assembly in December 2021, have now been circulated via the United Nations (C.N.46.2022), in the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish authentic languages. (....)