United Nations
General Assembly
A/RES/58/29
Distr.: General
19 December 2003
Fifty-eighth session
Agenda item 64
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2003
[on the report of the First Committee (A/58/453)]
58/29.
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean
as a Zone of Peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, contained in
its resolution 2832 (XXVI) of 16 December 1971, and recalling also its resolutions
54/47 of 1 December 1999 and 56/16 of 29 November 2001 and other relevant
resolutions,
Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States
of the Indian Ocean held in July 1979, 1
Recalling further paragraph 102 of the Final Document of the Thirteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held at
Kuala Lumpur, from 20 to 25 February 2003, 2 in which it was noted, inter alia, that
the Chairperson of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean would continue his
informal consultations on the future work of the Committee,
Emphasizing the need to foster consensual approaches that are conducive to
the pursuit of such endeavours,
Noting the initiatives taken by countries of the region to promote cooperation,
in particular economic cooperation, in the Indian Ocean area and the possible
contribution of such initiatives to overall objectives of a zone of peace,
Convinced that the participation of all permanent members of the Security
Council and the major maritime users of the Indian Ocean in the work of the Ad Hoc
Committee is important and would assist the progress of a mutually beneficial
dialogue to develop conditions of peace, security and stability in the Indian Ocean
region,
Considering that greater efforts and more time are required to develop a
focused discussion on practical measures to ensure conditions of peace, security and
stability in the Indian Ocean region,
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum
(A/34/45 and Corr.1).
2
See A/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.
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