A/RES/70/235*
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 March 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 79 (a)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2015
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.22 and Add.1)]
70/235. 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 69/245 of 29 December 2014, as well as other
relevant resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea (the Convention), 1
Recalling also, in this regard, resolution 69/292 of 19 June 2015 on the
development of an international legally binding instrument under the Convention on
the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond
national jurisdiction,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General, 2 the summary of the
first global integrated marine assessment, 3 transmitted by the letter dated 7 July
2015 from the Co-Chairs 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) , to the
President of the General Assembly, 4 and the reports on the work of the Ad Hoc
Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process, 5 of the United Nations Openended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (the
Informal Consultative Process) at its sixteenth meeting 6 and on the twenty-fifth
Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, 7
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
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* Reissued for technical reasons on 29 March 2016.
1
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
2
A/70/74 and Add.1.
3
World Ocean Assessment I.
4
See A/70/112.
5
A/70/418.
6
A/70/78.
7
SPLOS/287.
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