A/RES/72/73
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 January 2018
wor
Seventy-second session
Agenda item 77 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
5 December 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/72/L.18 and A/72/L.18/Add.1)]
72/73.
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 71/257 of 23 December 2016, as well as other relevant
resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the
Convention), 1
Recalling also, in this regard, resolution 69/292 of 19 June 2015 on the
development 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 report 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 eighteenth meeting, 4 the report of the twenty-seventh
Meeting of States Parties to the Convention 5 and the report of the United Nations
Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14:
Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable
development, 6
Recognizing the pre-eminent contribution provided by the Convention to the
strengthening of peace, security, cooperation and friendly relations among all nations
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
See A/72/70 and A/72/70/Add.1.
A/72/89 and A/72/494.
A/72/95.
SPLOS/316.
A/CONF.230/14.
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