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24. Requests the Secretary-General to prepare a draft provisional agenda and
draft rules of procedure for the review conference, and to circulate them at the same
time as the provisional agenda, proposed by the fourth round of informal
consultations of States parties to the Agreement, for the fifth round of informal
consultations, sixty days in advance of these consultations;
25. Also requests the Secretary-General to invite States, and entities referred
to in the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, which are
not parties to the Agreement, to participate fully in the fifth round of informal
consultations of States parties to the Agreement on an equal footing with those
States parties, except without voting rights, and reaffirms that, in accordance with
past practice, every effort will be made to adopt recommendations on the basis of
consensus;
26. Further requests the Secretary-General to invite 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, subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, other fisheries bodies, other relevant intergovernmental bodies and relevant non-governmental organizations to attend the fifth
round of informal consultations of States parties to the Agreement as observers;
27. Encourages wide participation in the review conference, in accordance
with article 36 of the Agreement, and calls upon those States that are able to do so to
become parties to the Agreement prior to the conference;
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Related fisheries instruments
28. Emphasizes the importance of the effective implementation of the
provisions of the Compliance Agreement,9 and urges continued efforts in this
regard;
29. Calls upon all States and other entities referred to in article X,
paragraph 1, of the Compliance Agreement that have not yet become parties to that
Agreement to do so as a matter of priority and, in the interim, to consider applying
it provisionally;
30. Urges States and subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements to implement and promote the application of the
Code3 within their areas of competence;
31. Urges States to develop and implement, as a matter of priority, national
and, as appropriate, regional plans of action to put into effect the international plans
of action of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
32. Welcomes the adoption of the Code of Safety for Fishermen and Fishing
Vessels as revised by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
the International Labour Organization and the International Maritime Organization
and encourages its effective application, and urges States to become parties to the
1993 Protocol to the Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of
Fishing Vessels;
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