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measures related to the prevention, reporting and investigation of acts of violence
against installations, in accordance with international law, and by implementing
such measures through national legislation to ensure proper and adequate
enforcement;
72. 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;
73. 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 efforts 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;
74. Calls upon user States and States bordering straits used for international
navigation 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;
75. Welcomes the progress in regional cooperation, including the Jakarta,
Kuala Lumpur and Singapore Statements on Enhancement of Safety, Security and
Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, adopted on
8 September 2005, 34 20 September 2006 35 and 6 September 2007, 36 respectively,
especially the formal establishment of the Cooperative Mechanism on safety of
navigation and environmental protection to promote dialogue and facilitate close
cooperation between the littoral States, user States, shipping industry and other
stakeholders in line with article 43 of the Convention, and in implementing the
Marine Electronic Highway Demonstration Project for the Straits of Malacca and
Singapore, notes with appreciation that the Information Sharing Centre of the
Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against
Ships in Asia is already operational in Singapore, and calls upon States to give
immediate attention to adopting, concluding and implementing cooperation
agreements at the regional level;
3F
34F
35F
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, 37 and the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women
and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, 38 and to take appropriate measures to ensure their effective
implementation;
36F
37F
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34
A/60/529, annex II.
A/61/584, annex.
36
A/62/518, annex.
37
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2241, No. 39574.
38
Ibid., vol. 2237, No. 39574.
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