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organizations and financial institutions to make voluntary financial contributions to
the budget of the Institute;
14. Welcomes ongoing activities for capacity-building so as to address
maritime security and safety needs and the protection of the marine environment of
developing States, and encourages States and international financial institutions to
provide additional funding for capacity-building programmes, including for transfer
of technology, including through the International Maritime Organization and other
competent international organizations;
15. Recognizes the considerable need to provide sustained capacity-building
assistance, including on financial and technical aspects, by relevant international
organizations and donors to developing States, with a view to further strengthening
their capacity to take effective measures against the multiple facets of international
criminal activities at sea, in line with the relevant international instruments,
including the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
and the Protocols thereto; 14
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16. Also recognizes the need to build the capacity of developing States to
raise awareness of, and support the implementation of, improved waste management
practices, noting the particular vulnerability of small island developing States to the
impact of marine pollution from land-based sources and marine debris;
17. Further recognizes the importance of assisting developing States, in
particular the least developed countries and small island developing States, as well
as coastal African States, in implementing the Convention, and urges States,
intergovernmental organizations and agencies, national institutions, non-governmental
organizations and international financial institutions, as well as natural and juridical
persons, to make voluntary financial or other contributions to the trust funds, as
referred to in resolution 57/141, established for this purpose;
18. Encourages States to use the Criteria and Guidelines on the Transfer of
Marine Technology adopted by the Assembly of the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, 15 and recalls the important role of the secretariat of that
Commission in the implementation and promotion of the Criteria and Guidelines;
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19. Calls upon States to assist developing States, and especially the least
developed countries and small island developing States, as well as coastal African
States, at the bilateral and, where appropriate, multilateral levels, in the preparation
of submissions to the Commission regarding the establishment of the outer limits of
the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, including the assessment of the
nature and extent of the continental shelf of a coastal State through a desktop study,
and the delineation of the outer limits of its continental shelf, as well as in the
preparation of preliminary information to be submitted to the Secretary-General in
accordance with the decision of the eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the
Convention;10
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20. Calls upon the Division to continue to disseminate information on
relevant procedures related to the trust fund established for the purpose of
facilitating the preparation of submissions to the Commission and to continue its
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vols. 2225, 2237, 2241 and 2326, No. 39574.
See Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, document IOC/INF-1203.
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