A/RES/59/24 all States to work with that organization to promote safe and secure shipping while ensuring freedom of navigation; 52. Also welcomes the entry into force of the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime 21 and of the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 22 and urges States that have not yet done so to become parties to the Protocols and to take appropriate measures to ensure their effective implementation; 53. Further welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of amendments to the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue 23 and to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 24 relating to the delivery of persons rescued at sea to a place of safety and of the associated Guidelines on the Treatment of Persons Rescued at Sea; 25 X Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems 54. Emphasizes once again the importance of the implementation of Part XII of the Convention in order to protect and preserve the marine environment and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation, and calls upon all States to cooperate and take measures, directly or through competent international organizations, for the protection and preservation of the marine environment; 55. Calls upon all States that have not yet done so to become parties to and implement the 1996 Protocol to the Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter, 1972, 26 and protect and preserve the marine environment from all sources of pollution and take effective measures, according to their scientific, technical and economic capabilities, to prevent, reduce and, where practicable, eliminate pollution caused by dumping or incineration at sea of wastes or other matter; 56. Welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of amendments to the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships of 1973, as modified by the Protocol of 1978 relating thereto, providing for the accelerated phase-out of single-hull tankers and a phase-out scheme for the carriage of heavy grade fuel oil in single-hull tankers; 27 57. Also welcomes the adoption by the International Maritime Organization of the International Convention for the Control and Management of Ships’ Ballast Water and Sediments, 28 and calls upon States to become parties to that Convention; _______________ 21 Resolution 55/25, annex III. Ibid., annex II. 23 Maritime Safety Committee, document MSC//78/26/Add.1, annex 5, resolution MSC.155(78). 24 Ibid., annex 3, resolution MSC.153(78). 25 Ibid., annex 34, resolution MSC.167(78). 26 IMO/LC.2/Circ.380. 27 Marine Environment Protection Committee, document MEPC 50/3, annex 1, resolution MEPC.111(50). 28 International Maritime Organization, document BWM/CONF/36, annex. 22 11