THE HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES,HAVING RECOGNISED the desirability of determining by agreement certainuniform rules of law rel ating to the arrest of seagoing ships, havedecided to conclude a convention, for this purpose and hereto have agreedas follows.

• 认识到有必要通过协议确定海船扣押某些统一的法律规定，决定缔结一公约，并协议如下：