United Nations
A/RES/69/109
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 February 2015
Sixty-ninth session
Agenda item 74 (b)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2014
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/69/L.30 and Add.1)]
69/109. Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement
for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December
1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of
Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks,
and related instruments
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its annual resolutions on sustainable fisheries, including resolution
68/71 of 9 December 2013, and other relevant resolutions,
Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the
Law of the Sea (the Convention), 1 and bearing in mind the relationship between the
Convention and the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to
the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks (the Agreement),2
Noting with satisfaction that 16 November 2014 marked the twentieth
anniversary of the entry into force of the Convention,
Welcoming the ratifications of and accessions to the Agreement and the fact that
a growing number of States, entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1,
paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, and subregional and regional fisheries
management organizations and arrangements, have taken measures, as appropriate,
towards the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement, in order to improve
their management regimes,
Noting with satisfaction the upcoming twentieth anniversary of the opening for
signature of the Agreement on 4 December 1995 at New York, as well as the
upcoming twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924.
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