A/RES/62/215 102. Notes the information provided by the Secretary-General relating to the study on the assistance available to and measures that may be taken by developing States, in particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, as well as coastal African States, to realize the benefits of sustainable and effective development of marine resources and uses of the oceans within the limits of national jurisdiction, to be submitted to the General Assembly at its sixty-third session pursuant to paragraph 88 of resolution 61/222, urges States and competent international organizations and global and regional funding agencies to provide further information, and requests that the study be prepared in continuing cooperation with such States and organizations and based on information so provided or disseminated and otherwise available in the public domain; X Marine biodiversity 103. Reaffirms its role relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction, notes the work of States and relevant complementary intergovernmental organizations and bodies on those issues, including the Convention on Biological Diversity and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and invites them to contribute to its consideration of these issues within the areas of their respective competence; 104. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity beyond areas of national jurisdiction, prepared and released in response to the request in paragraph 92 of resolution 61/222; 56 5F 105. Reaffirms its request to the Secretary-General to convene a meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group in accordance with paragraph 91 of resolution 61/222 and paragraphs 79 and 80 of resolution 60/30, to take place in New York from 28 April to 2 May 2008, and to provide the services required; 106. Encourages States to include relevant experts in their delegations attending the meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Informal Working Group; 107. Recognizes the importance of making the outcomes of the Ad Hoc Openended Informal Working Group widely available; 108. Notes the work under the Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity 57 and the Convention on Biological Diversity elaborated programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity, 58 as well as the relevant decisions adopted at the eighth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Curitiba, Brazil, from 20 to 31 March 2006; 59 56 F 57F 58F 109. Reaffirms the need for States and competent international organizations to urgently consider ways to integrate and improve, based on the best available scientific information and in accordance with the Convention and related agreements and instruments, the management of risks to the marine biodiversity of _______________ 56 A/62/66/Add.2. See A/51/312, annex II, decision II/10. 58 UNEP/CBD/COP/7/21, annex, decision VII/5, annex I. 59 UNEP/CBD/COP/8/31, annex I. 57 19