A/RES/73/124 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 31 December 2018 Seventy-third session Agenda item 78 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2018 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/73/L.35 and A/73/L.35/Add.1)] 73/124. Oceans and the law of the sea The General Assembly, Reaffirming its annual resolutions on the law of the sea and on oceans and the law of the sea, including resolution 72/73 of 5 December 2017, as well as other relevant resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention), 1 Recalling, in this regard, resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017 on an international legally binding instrument under the Convention on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Underscoring the importance of the work undertaken by the intergovernmental conference to elaborate the text of an international legally binding instrument under the Convention on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction, Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General, 2 the reports on the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects (the Regular Process) 3 and of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (the Informal Consultative Process) at its nineteenth meeting 4 and the report of the twenty-eighth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, 5 Recognizing the pre-eminent contribution provided by the Convention to the strengthening of peace, security, cooperation and friendly relations among all nations __________________ 1 2 3 4 5 18-21627 (E) United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363. A/73/68 and A/73/368. A/73/74 and A/73/373. A/73/124. SPLOS/324. 140119 *1821627*

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