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Noting further that financial and technical assistance may be sought by
developing countries for activities in relation to preparing submissions to the
Commission, including through the voluntary trust fund established by resolution
55/7 of 30 October 2000 for the purpose of facilitating the preparation of
submissions to the Commission for developing States, in particular the least
developed countries and small island developing States, and compliance with
article 76 of the Convention, as well as other accessible international assistance,
Recognizing the important role for developing countries of the trust funds
established by resolution 55/7 for the activities of the Commission, and noting with
appreciation the recent contributions made to them,
Reaffirming the importance of the work of the Commission for coastal States
and the international community as a whole,
Noting the important role of the Commission in assisting States parties in the
implementation of Part VI of the Convention, through the examination of
information submitted by coastal States regarding the outer limits of the continental
shelf beyond 200 nautical miles, and acknowledging in this regard the anticipated
workload of the Commission owing to an increasing number of submissions, placing
additional demands on its members and on the Division for Ocean Affairs and the
Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat (“the Division”), and
the need to ensure that the Commission can perform its functions under the
Convention effectively and maintain its high level of quality and expertise,
Recognizing the importance and the contribution of the work over the past
eight years of the Consultative Process established by resolution 54/33 to facilitate
the annual review of developments in ocean affairs by the General Assembly and
extended by resolutions 57/141 and 60/30,
Noting the responsibilities of the Secretary-General under the Convention and
related resolutions of the General Assembly, in particular resolutions 49/28, 52/26
and 54/33, and in this context the increase in activities of the Division, in particular
in view of the growing number of requests to the Division for additional outputs and
servicing of meetings, the increasing capacity-building activities, the need for
enhanced support and assistance to the Commission and the role of the Division in
inter-agency coordination and cooperation,
Emphasizing that underwater archaeological, cultural and historical heritage,
including shipwrecks and watercrafts, holds essential information on the history of
humankind and that such heritage is a resource that needs to be protected and
preserved,
Reaffirming the importance of the work of the International Seabed Authority
(“the Authority”) in accordance with the Convention and the Agreement relating to
the Implementation of Part XI of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea of 10 December 1982 (“the Agreement”), 10
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Reaffirming also the importance of the work of the International Tribunal for
the Law of the Sea (“the Tribunal”) in accordance with the Convention,
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