A/RES/68/70
United Nations
Distr.: General
27 February 2014
General Assembly
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 76 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2013
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.18 and Add.1)]
68/70.
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 67/78 of 11 December 2012, and other relevant
resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the
Convention), 1
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 2 the recommendations
of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group to study issues relating to the
conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of
national jurisdiction (the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group) 3 and the
reports on the work of the United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative
Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (the Informal Consultative Process) at its
fourteenth meeting, 4 on the twenty-third Meeting of States Parties to the
Convention, 5 and 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), 6
Recognizing the pre-eminent contribution provided by the Convention to the
strengthening of peace, security, cooperation and friendly relations among all
nations in conformity with the principles of justice and equal rights and to the
promotion of the economic and social advancement of all peoples of the world, in
accordance with the purposes and principles of the United Nations as set forth in the
Charter of the United Nations, as well as to the sustainable development of the
oceans and seas,
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1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
A/68/71 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1.
3
A/68/399, annex, sect. I.
4
A/68/159.
5
SPLOS/263.
6
A/68/82 and Corr.1.
2
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