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intergovernmental organizations to increase cooperation and coordination at all
levels to detect and suppress the smuggling of migrants and trafficking in persons,
in accordance with international law;
75. Recognizes the importance of enhancing international cooperation at all
levels to fight transnational organized criminal activities, including illicit traffic in
narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, within the scope of the United Nations
instruments against illicit drug trafficking, as well as the smuggling of migrants and
trafficking in persons and criminal activities at sea falling within the scope of the
United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; 32
31F
76. Calls upon States that have not yet done so to become parties to the
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing
the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 33 and the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 34 and to take appropriate measures to ensure their effective
implementation;
32F
3F
77. Calls upon States to ensure freedom of navigation, the safety of
navigation and the rights of transit passage, archipelagic sea lanes passage and
innocent passage in accordance with international law, in particular the Convention;
78. Welcomes the work of the International Maritime Organization relating to
the protection of shipping lanes of strategic importance and significance, and in
particular in enhancing safety, security and environmental protection in straits used
for international navigation, and calls upon the International Maritime Organization,
States bordering straits and user States to continue their cooperation to keep such
straits safe, secure and environmentally protected and open to international
navigation at all times, consistent with international law, in particular the
Convention;
79. Calls upon user States and States bordering straits used for international
navigation to continue to cooperate by agreement on matters relating to navigational
safety, including safety aids for navigation, and the prevention, reduction and
control of pollution from ships, and welcomes developments in this regard;
80. Takes note of the adoption of the Code of International Standards and
Recommended Practices for a Safety Investigation into a Marine Casualty or Marine
Incident, 35 which will take effect on 1 January 2010 upon the entry into force of the
amendments to regulation XI-1/6 of the International Convention for the Safety of
Life at Sea, 1974; 36
34F
35F
81. Calls upon States to consider becoming members of the International
Hydrographic Organization, and urges all States to work with that Organization to
increase the coverage of hydrographic information on a global basis to enhance
capacity-building and technical assistance and to promote safe navigation,
especially in areas used for international navigation, in ports and where there are
vulnerable or protected marine areas;
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32
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2225, No. 39574.
Ibid., vol. 2241, No. 39574.
34
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
35
International Maritime Organization, document MSC 84/24/Add.1, annex 1, resolution MSC.255(84).
36
International Maritime Organization, document MSC 84/24/Add.1, annex 3, resolution MSC.257(84).
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