A/RES/48/82 Page 2 Welcoming the positive developments in international political relations, which offer opportunities for enhancing peace, security and cooperation, and which have been reflected in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean, Reaffirming the importance of the freedom of navigation in the high seas, including in the Indian Ocean, in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 3/ Convinced that the Ad Hoc Committee should continue its consideration of new alternative approaches, Emphasizing the need for the permanent members of the Security Council and the major maritime users of the Indian Ocean to cooperate with and participate in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee, particularly at a time when the Committee is actively engaged in the task of developing new alternative approaches, 1. Ocean; 4/ Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian 2. Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to continue consideration of new alternative approaches building upon its deliberations at the session held in 1993, with a view to reaching early agreement to give new impetus to the process of strengthening cooperation and ensuring peace, security and stability in the Indian Ocean region; 3. Calls upon the permanent members of the Security Council and the major maritime users of the Indian Ocean to participate in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee; 4. Invites Member States to submit to the Secretary-General, by 31 May 1994, their views on new alternative approaches, including those discussed at the 1993 session of the Ad Hoc Committee and contained in its report to the General Assembly; 5. Requests the Secretary-General to submit, by 30 June 1994, a report based on replies received from Member States; 6. Requests the Ad Hoc Committee to hold a session during 1994, of a duration of not more than five working days; 7. Also requests the Ad Hoc Committee to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session a comprehensive report on the implementation of the present resolution; __________ Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law 3/ of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3), document A/CONF.62/122. 4/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 29 (A/48/29). /...