A/RES/62/215
United Nations
Distr.: General
14 March 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 77 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2007
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/62/L.27 and Add.1)]
62/215. Oceans and the law of the sea
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 49/28 of 6 December 1994, 52/26 of 26 November 1997,
54/33 of 24 November 1999, 57/141 of 12 December 2002, 58/240 of 23 December
2003, 59/24 of 17 November 2004, 60/30 of 29 November 2005, 61/222 of
20 December 2006 and other relevant resolutions concerning the United Nations
Convention on the Law of the Sea (“the Convention”), 1
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Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 2 the addendum
thereto, 3 the report 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”) 4 and also the reports on the work of the United Nations Open-ended
Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (“the Consultative
Process”) at its eighth meeting 5 and on the seventeenth Meeting of States Parties to
the Convention, 6
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Noting with satisfaction the twenty-fifth anniversary of the opening for
signature of the Convention, and emphasizing 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 for the sustainable
development of the oceans and seas,
Emphasizing the universal and unified character of the Convention, and
reaffirming that the Convention sets out the legal framework within which all
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
A/62/66.
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A/62/66/Add.1.
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A/61/65.
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A/62/169.
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SPLOS/164 and Corr.1.
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07-47667