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Emphasizes the importance of the effective implementation of the
provisions of the Agreement, including those provisions relating to bilateral,
regional and subregional cooperation in enforcement, and urges continued efforts in
this regard;
Welcomes the entry into force of the Convention on the Conservation and
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Management of Fishery Resources in the South-East Atlantic Ocean on 13 April
2003, and invites signatory States and other States with real interest whose vessels
fish in the Convention area for fishery resources covered by that Convention to
ratify or to accede to the Convention;
Calls upon all States to ensure that their vessels comply with the
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conservation and management measures that have been adopted by subregional and
regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements in accordance with
relevant provisions of the Convention and of the Agreement;
Invites States and international financial institutions and organizations of
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the United Nations system to provide assistance according to Part VII of the
Agreement, including, if appropriate, the development of special financial
mechanisms or instruments to assist developing States, in particular the least
developed among them and small island developing States, to enable them to
develop their national capacity to exploit fishery resources, including developing
their domestically flagged fishing fleet, value-added processing and the expansion
of their economic base in the fishing industry, consistent with the duty to ensure the
proper conservation and management of those fisheries resources;
10. Decides to establish an Assistance Fund under Part VII of the Agreement
to assist developing States parties in the implementation of the Agreement, to be
administered by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
which should act as the implementing office for the Fund, in collaboration with the
United Nations, in accordance with the terms of reference as agreed at the second
round of informal consultations of the States parties to the Agreement and
appropriate arrangements made between them;
11. Emphasizes the importance of outreach to potential donor organizations
to contribute to the programme of assistance, including the Assistance Fund newly
established under Part VII of the Agreement;
12. Recalls paragraph 6 of its resolution 56/13, and requests the SecretaryGeneral to convene a third round of informal consultations of States parties to the
Agreement, for the purposes and objectives of considering the national, regional,
subregional and global implementation of the Agreement, in particular by
conducting an evaluation of the implementation of the Agreement by regional
fisheries management organizations as well as considering initial preparatory steps
for the review conference to be convened by the Secretary-General pursuant to
article 36 of the Agreement, and making any appropriate recommendation to the
General Assembly;
13. Requests the Secretary-General to invite States, and entities referred to in
the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, not party to the
Agreement, as well as the United Nations Development Programme, the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other specialized agencies, the
Commission on Sustainable Development, the World Bank, the Global Environment
Facility and other relevant international financial institutions, regional fishery
bodies and arrangements and relevant non-governmental organizations to attend the
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