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dialogue with potential beneficiaries with a view to providing financial support to
developing countries for activities to facilitate timely submissions to the Commission;
21. Notes with appreciation the successful conduct by the Division, in
cooperation with States and relevant international organizations and institutions, of
further subregional training courses in Trinidad and Tobago from 14 to 18 January
2008 and in Namibia from 15 September to 3 October 2008, the purpose of which
was to train technical staff of coastal developing States in the delineation of the
outer limits of the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles and in the preparation
of submissions to the Commission, and requests the Secretary-General, in
cooperation with States and relevant international organizations and institutions, to
continue to support training activities to assist developing States in the preparation
of their submissions to the Commission;
22. Also notes with appreciation the development by the Division of a
training manual on developing and implementing ecosystem approaches to the
management of ocean-related activities and the successful delivery, in cooperation
with the United Nations Environment Programme under the TRAIN-SEA-COAST
Programme, of the first regional training workshop on “Ecosystem approaches to
coastal and ocean management: focus on ecosystem-based management in Eastern
Africa”, in Mombasa, Kenya, from 27 October to 1 November 2008;
23. Further notes with appreciation the regional workshop of the Tribunal,
held in Buenos Aires from 26 to 28 May 2008, on the role of the Tribunal in the
settlement of disputes relating to the law of the sea;
24. Invites Member States and others in a position to do so to support the
capacity-building activities of the Division, including, in particular, the training
activities to assist developing States in the preparation of their submissions to the
Commission, and invites Member States and others in a position to do so to
contribute to the trust fund established by the Secretary-General for the Office of
Legal Affairs of the Secretariat to support the promotion of international law;
25. Recognizes the importance of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe
Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, expresses its serious concern regarding
the lack of resources, which is preventing the implementation of the twenty-second
and future awards, advises the Secretary-General to continue to finance the
Fellowship from resources made available through an appropriate Office of Legal
Affairs trust fund, and urges Member States and others in a position to do so to
contribute to the further development of the Fellowship;
26. Takes note with satisfaction of the ongoing implementation of the United
Nations and the Nippon Foundation Fellowship Programme, focusing on human
resources development for developing coastal States parties and non-parties to the
Convention in the field of ocean affairs and the law of the sea or related disciplines;
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27. Welcomes the report of the eighteenth Meeting of States Parties to the
Convention;5
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28. Requests the Secretary-General to convene the nineteenth Meeting of
States Parties in New York, from 22 to 26 June 2009, and to provide the services
required;
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