A/RES/64/71 23. Notes with appreciation the regional workshop of the Tribunal, held in Cape Town, South Africa, from 7 to 9 October 2009, on the role of the Tribunal in the settlement of disputes relating to the law of the sea; 24. Invites Member States and others in a position to do so to support the capacity-building activities of the Division, including, in particular, the training and other activities to assist developing States in the preparation of their submissions to the Commission, and invites Member States and others in a position to do so to contribute to the trust fund established by the Secretary-General for the Office of Legal Affairs to support the promotion of international law; 25. Recognizes the important contribution of the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea to the capacity-building of developing countries and the promotion of the law of the sea, reiterates its serious concern regarding the continued lack of resources, which has prevented the implementation of the twenty-second and subsequent awards, advises the SecretaryGeneral to continue to finance the Fellowship from resources made available through an appropriate Office of Legal Affairs trust fund, reiterates its urgent appeal to Member States and others in a position to do so to contribute generously to the further development of the Fellowship to ensure that it is awarded every year, and requests the Secretary-General to include the Fellowship on the list of trust funds for the United Nations Pledging Conference for Development Activities; 26. Recognizes the contribution that the United Nations-Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship Programme, which has awarded 50 fellowships to individuals from 44 Member States since 2005 and in April 2009 launched a fellowship alumni programme with an inaugural meeting of the Asia-Pacific alumni at the Foundation’s headquarters in Tokyo, has made to human resources development for developing coastal States Parties and non-Parties to the Convention in the field of ocean affairs and the law of the sea or related disciplines; III Meeting of States Parties 27. Welcomes the report of the nineteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention;4 2H 28. Requests the Secretary-General to convene the twentieth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention, in New York from 14 to 18 June 2010, and to provide the services required; IV Peaceful settlement of disputes 29. Notes with satisfaction the continued and significant contribution of the Tribunal to the settlement of disputes by peaceful means in accordance with Part XV of the Convention, and underlines the important role and authority of the Tribunal concerning the interpretation or application of the Convention and the Part XI Agreement; 30. Equally pays tribute to the important and long-standing role of the International Court of Justice with regard to the peaceful settlement of disputes concerning the law of the sea; 31. Notes that States Parties to an international agreement related to the purposes of the Convention may submit to, inter alia, the Tribunal or the 9