A/RES/74/19
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 December 2019
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 74 (a)
Oceans and the law of the sea: oceans and the law of the sea
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 10 December 2019
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/74/L.22 and A/74/L.22/Add.1)]
74/19.
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 73/124 of 11 December 2018, as well as other
relevant resolutions concerning the United Nations Conv ention 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 twentieth meeting 4 and the report of the twenty-ninth
Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, 5
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
A/74/70 and A/74/350.
A/74/315.
A/74/119.
SPLOS/29/9.
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