A/RES/52/14 Page 3 11. Welcomes the steps taken by the newly elected Government of Liberia towards the implementation of programmes to achieve genuine reconciliation and national unity and the formation of a broad-based government, and its commitment to promoting the protection of human rights and respect for the rule of law; 12. Commends the efforts of Member States and humanitarian organizations in rendering humanitarian assistance to Angola and Liberia, and urges them to continue to provide and to increase such assistance; 13. Expresses concern at the situation in Sierra Leone, condemns the coup d'état against the democratically elected Government by the military on 25 May 1997, and calls upon the military junta in Sierra Leone to fulfil its obligations under the peace plan agreed to at Conakry on 23 October 1997;7 14. Commends the initiatives of the Economic Community of West African States and of the Security Council in trying to resolve the situation, and calls on the international community to lend its support to those initiatives by faithfully implementing the various measures adopted in order to accelerate the return to peace and stability in Sierra Leone; 15. Affirms the importance of the South Atlantic to global maritime and commercial transactions and its determination to preserve the region for all peaceful purposes and activities protected by international law, in particular the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea;8 16. Welcomes the offer by Argentina to host the fifth meeting of the States members of the zone in 1998; 17. Requests the relevant organizations, organs and bodies of the United Nations system to render all appropriate assistance that States of the zone may seek in their joint efforts to implement the declaration of the zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic; 18. Requests the Secretary-General to keep the implementation of resolution 41/11 and subsequent resolutions on the matter under review and to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session, taking into account, inter alia, the views expressed by Member States; 19. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic". 50th plenary meeting 20 November 1997 7 See S/1997/824, annex II. For the final text, see Official Records of the Security Council, Fifty-second Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1997, document S/1997/824. 8 Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3), document A/CONF.62/122.