A/RES/71/312 United Nations Distr.: General 14 July 2017 General Assembly Seventy-first session Agenda items 19 and 73 (a) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 July 2017 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.74)] 71/312. Our ocean, our future: call for action The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 70/303 of 9 September 2016, in which it decided that the high-level United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development would be convened at United Nations Headquarters from 5 to 9 June 2017, 1. Expresses its profound gratitude to the Governments of Fiji and Sweden for discharging their co-hosting responsibilities by assuming the costs of the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and its preparatory process and for providing all necessary support; 2. Endorses the declaration entitled “Our ocean, our future: call for action” adopted by the Conference, as contained in the annex to the present resolution. 90th plenary meeting 6 July 2017 Annex Our ocean, our future: call for action 1. We, the Heads of State and Government and high-level representatives, meeting in New York from 5 to 9 June 2017 at the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 1 with the full participation of civil society and other relevant stakeholders, affirm our strong commitment to conserve and sustainably use our oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. _______________ 1 Resolution 70/1. 17-11370 (E) *1711370* Please recycle