A
UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/194
18 January 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 99(c)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Second Committee (A/48/725)]
48/194. United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and
Highly Migratory Fish Stocks
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolution 47/192 of 22 December 1992, concerning the
United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish
Stocks (the Conference),
Noting that the Conference held its organizational session in New York
from 19 to 23 April 1993, and its second session, also in New York, from 12 to
30 July 1993,
Noting with appreciation that the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations has agreed to prepare two information papers, one on the
precautionary approach and the other on the concept of maximum sustainable
yield,
Welcoming the report of the Secretary-General on the progress made by
the Conference during 1993, 1/
Taking note of the recommendation of the Conference to the General
Assembly, as set forth in the report of the Conference on its second session,
regarding the convening of two further sessions in 1994, 2/ required by the
Conference in order to complete its work,
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1/
A/48/479.
2/
A/CONF.164/16 and Corr.1, para. 25(a).
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