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Oceans and the law of the sea
coastal States, upon request, to enhance their capabilities to prevent smuggling of
migrants and human trafficking by sea;
158. Calls upon States, in that context, to take measures in accordance with
relevant international obligations to prevent and combat all forms of trafficking in
persons, to identify victims of human trafficking, including among migrant flows, and
to provide trafficking victims with appropriate protection and assistance, according
to their national law and policy;
159. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to consider becoming parties
to the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 68 the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms,
Their Parts and Components and Ammunition, supplementing the United Nations
Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 69 and the Protocol to Prevent,
Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children,
supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized
Crime, 70 and to take appropriate measures to ensure their effective implementation;
160. Calls upon States to ensure freedom of navigation, the safety of navigation
and the rights of transit passage, archipelagic sea lanes passage and innocent passage
in accordance with international law, in particular the Convention;
161. Welcomes the work of the International Maritime Organization relating to
the protection of shipping lanes of strategic importance and significance, and in
particular in enhancing safety, security and environmental protection in straits used
for international navigation, and calls upon that Organization, States bordering straits
and user States to continue their cooperation to keep such straits safe, secure and
environmentally protected and open to international navigation at all times, consistent
with international law, in particular the Convention;
162. Calls upon user States and States bordering straits used for international
navigation to continue to cooperate by agreement on matters relating to navigational
safety, including safety aids for navigation, and the prevention, reduction and control
of pollution from ships, and welcomes developments in this regard;
163. Calls upon States that have accepted the amendments to regulation XI-1/6
of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, 1974, 71 to implement the
Code of International Standards and Recommended Practices for a Safety
Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine Incident, 72 which took effect on
1 January 2010, and, in particular, to comply with the mandatory conduct of a marine
safety investigation into very serious marine casualties and submission of a marine
safety investigation report to the International Maritime Organization to identify
trends and develop knowledge and risk-based recommendations;
164. Takes note of International Maritime Organization resolution A.1091(28)
of 4 December 2013 on guidelines on the preservation and collection of evidence
following an allegation of a serious crime having taken place on board a ship or
following a report of a missing person from a ship, and pastoral and medical care of
persons affected;
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Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2326, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
International Maritime Organization, document MSC 84/24/Add.1, annex 3, resolution
MSC.257(84).
International Maritime Organization, document MSC 84/24/Add.1, annex 1, r esolution
MSC.255(84).
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