United Nations A/RES/55/203 General Assembly Distr.: General 8 February 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 95 (d) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Second Committee (A/55/582/Add.4)] 55/203. Promoting an integrated management approach to the Caribbean Sea area in the context of sustainable development The General Assembly, Reaffirming the principles and commitments enshrined in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development 1 and the principles embodied in the Declaration of Barbados 2 and the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, 3 as well as other relevant declarations and international instruments, Recalling the Declaration 4 and review document4 adopted by the General Assembly at its twenty-second special session, Taking into account all other relevant resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, including resolution 54/225 of 22 December 1999, Reaffirming the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 5 and emphasizing the fundamental character of the Convention, Conscious that the problems of ocean space are closely interrelated and that they need to be considered as a whole, Recalling the Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, signed at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on 24 March 1983, which contains the definition of the wider Caribbean region of which the Caribbean Sea is part, 6 1 Report of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.93.I.8 and corrigenda), vol. I: Resolutions adopted by the Conference, resolution 1, annex I. 2 Report of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, Bridgetown, Barbados, 25 April-6 May 1994 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.I.18 and corrigenda), chap. I, resolution 1, annex I. 3 Ibid., annex II. 4 See resolution S-22/2, annex. 5 United Nations publication, Sales No. E.97.V.10. 6 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1506, No. 25974. 00 57133