A/RES/63/111
United Nations
Distr.: General
12 February 2009
General Assembly
Sixty-third session
Agenda item 70 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2008
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/63/L.42 and Add.1)]
63/111. Oceans and the law of the sea
The General Assembly,
Recalling its annual resolutions on the law of the sea and on oceans and the
law of the sea, including resolution 62/215 of 22 December 2007, and other relevant
resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (“the
Convention”), 1
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Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 2 the joint statement of
the Co-Chairpersons of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study
issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity
beyond areas of national jurisdiction (“the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working
Group”) 3 and also the reports on the work of the United Nations Open-ended
Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (“the Consultative
Process”) at its ninth meeting 4 and on the eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the
Convention, 5
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Emphasizing the pre-eminent contribution provided by the Convention to the
strengthening of peace, security, cooperation and friendly relations among all
nations in conformity with the principles of justice and equal rights and to the
promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples of the world, in
accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations as set forth in the
Charter of the United Nations, as well as to the sustainable development of the
oceans and seas,
Emphasizing also the universal and unified character of the Convention, and
reaffirming that the Convention sets out the legal framework within which all
activities in the oceans and seas must be carried out and is of strategic importance as
the basis for national, regional and global action and cooperation in the marine
sector, and that its integrity needs to be maintained, as recognized also by the
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
A/63/63 and Add.1.
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A/63/79 and Corr.1, annex.
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A/63/174 and Corr.1.
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SPLOS/184.
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