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appropriate relationship between salvage law and scientific management and
conservation of underwater cultural heritage, increasing technological abilities to
discover and reach underwater sites, looting and growing underwater tourism;
Notes the forthcoming entry into force of the 2001 Convention on the
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Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage, 13 and notes in particular the rules
annexed thereto, which address the relationship between salvage law and scientific
principles of management, conservation and protection of underwater cultural
heritage among parties, their nationals and vessels flying their flag;
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Capacity-building
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Calls upon donor agencies and international financial institutions to keep
their programmes systematically under review to ensure the availability in all States,
particularly in developing States, of the economic, legal, navigational, scientific and
technical skills necessary for the full implementation of the Convention and the
objectives of the present resolution, as well as the sustainable development of the
oceans and seas nationally, regionally and globally, and in so doing to bear in mind
the interests and needs of landlocked developing States;
10. Encourages intensified efforts to build capacity for developing countries,
in particular for the least developed countries and small island developing States, as
well as coastal African States, to improve hydrographic services and the production
of nautical charts, including electronic charts, as well as the mobilization of
resources and building of capacity with support from international financial
institutions and the donor community;
11. Calls upon States and international financial institutions, including
through bilateral, regional and global cooperation programmes and technical
partnerships, to continue to strengthen capacity-building activities, in particular in
developing countries, in the field of marine scientific research by, inter alia, training
personnel to develop and enhance relevant expertise, providing the necessary
equipment, facilities and vessels and transferring environmentally sound technologies;
12. Also calls upon States and international financial institutions, including
through bilateral, regional and global cooperation programmes and technical
partnerships, to strengthen capacity-building activities in developing countries, in
particular least developed countries and small island developing States, to develop
their maritime administration and appropriate legal frameworks to establish or
enhance the necessary infrastructure, legislative and enforcement capabilities to
promote effective compliance with, and implementation and enforcement of, their
responsibilities under international law;
13. Recognizes the importance of the work of the International Maritime Law
Institute of the International Maritime Organization as a centre of education and
training of Government legal advisers, mainly from developing States, notes that the
number of its graduates in more than 102 States confirms its effective capacitybuilding role in the field of international law, and urges States, intergovernmental
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See United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General
Conference, Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October–3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum:
Resolutions, resolution 24.
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