A/RES/62/215
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Implementation of the Convention and related agreements and instruments
1.
Reaffirms its resolutions 49/28, 52/26, 54/33, 57/141, 58/240, 59/24,
60/30, 61/222 and other relevant resolutions concerning the Convention;1
2.
Also reaffirms the unified character of the Convention and the vital
importance of preserving its integrity;
3.
Calls upon all States that have not done so, in order to achieve the goal
of universal participation, to become parties to the Convention and the Agreement;10
4.
Calls upon all States that have not done so, in order to achieve the goal of
universal participation, to become parties to the Agreement for the Implementation of
the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of
10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish
Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (“the Fish Stocks Agreement”); 11
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5.
Calls upon States to harmonize, as a matter of priority, their national
legislation with the provisions of the Convention and, where applicable, relevant
agreements and instruments, to ensure the consistent application of those provisions
and to ensure also that any declarations or statements that they have made or make
when signing, ratifying or acceding to the Convention do not purport to exclude or
to modify the legal effect of the provisions of the Convention in their application to
the State concerned and to withdraw any such declarations or statements;
Calls upon States parties to the Convention to deposit with the Secretary6.
General charts or lists of geographical coordinates, as provided for in the
Convention;
Urges all States to cooperate, directly or through competent international
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bodies, in taking measures to protect and preserve objects of an archaeological and
historical nature found at sea, in conformity with the Convention, and calls upon
States to work together on such diverse challenges and opportunities as the
appropriate relationship between salvage law and scientific management and
conservation of underwater cultural heritage, increasing technological abilities to
discover and reach underwater sites, looting and growing underwater tourism;
Notes the effort made by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
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Cultural Organization with respect to the preservation of underwater cultural
heritage, and notes in particular the rules annexed to the 2001 Convention on the
Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage 12 that address the relationship
between salvage law and scientific principles of management, conservation and
protection of underwater cultural heritage among parties, their nationals and vessels
flying their flag;
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Welcomes the decision taken by the General Conference of the United
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Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at its thirty-fourth session
to increase the resources available for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic
Commission for the next biennium, 13 which will enable that Commission to increase
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Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference,
Thirty-first Session, Paris, 15 October–3 November 2001, vol. 1 and corrigendum: Resolutions,
resolution 24, annex.
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Ibid., Thirty-fourth Session, Paris, 16 October–2 November 2007, vol. 1: Resolutions, resolution 93.
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