A/RES/60/30 57. Welcomes the progress in regional cooperation in some geographical areas, through the Jakarta Statement on Enhancement of Safety, Security and Environmental Protection in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore, adopted on 8 September 2005, 24 and the Regional Cooperation Agreement on Combating Piracy and Armed Robbery against Ships in Asia, adopted on 11 November 2004 in Tokyo, and urges States to give urgent attention to adopting, concluding and implementing cooperation agreements at the regional level in high-risk areas; 58. Urges 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 25 and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 26 and to take appropriate measures to ensure their effective implementation; 59. Calls upon States to cooperate to ensure that persons are rescued at sea and delivered to a place of safety, and urges States to take all necessary measures to ensure the effective implementation of the amendments to the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue 27 and to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea 28 relating to the delivery of persons rescued at sea to a place of safety, upon their entry into force, as well as of the associated Guidelines on the Treatment of Persons Rescued at Sea; 29 60. Welcomes the adoption by the International Hydrographic Organization of the “World Hydrography Day”, to be celebrated annually on 21 June, with the aim of giving suitable publicity to its work at all levels and of increasing the coverage of hydrographic information on a global basis, and urges all States to work with that organization to promote safe navigation, especially in the areas of international navigation, ports and where there are vulnerable or protected marine areas; IX Marine environment, marine resources, marine biodiversity and the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems 61. Emphasizes once again the importance of the implementation of Part XII of the Convention in order to protect and preserve the marine environment and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation, and calls upon all States to cooperate and take measures, directly or through competent international organizations, for the protection and preservation of the marine environment; 62. Encourages States to ratify or accede to international agreements addressing the protection and preservation of the marine environment and its living marine resources against pollution and physical degradation, as well as agreements _______________ 24 A/60/529, annex II. Resolution 55/25, annex III. 26 Ibid., annex II. 27 International Maritime Organization, document MSC/78/26/Add.1, annex 5, resolution MSC.155(78). 28 Ibid., annex 3, resolution MSC.153(78). 29 Ibid., annex 34, resolution MSC.167(78). 25 11