A/RES/70/75 United Nations Distr.: General 22 February 2016 General Assembly Seventieth session Agenda item 79 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2015 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.19 and Add.1)] 70/75. Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 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, and related instruments The General Assembly, Reaffirming its annual resolutions on sustainable fisheries, including resolution 69/109 of 9 December 2014, and other relevant resolutions, Recalling the relevant provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (the Convention), 1 and bearing in mind the relationship between the Convention and the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1 0 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (the Agreement), 2 Welcoming the ratifications of and accessions to the Agreement and the fact that a growing number of States, entities referred to in the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, and subregional and regional fisheries management organizations and arrangements, have taken measures, as appropriate, towards the implementation of the provisions of the Agreement, in order to improve their management regimes, Noting with satisfaction the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Agreement on 4 December 1995 at New York, as well as the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (the Code), and noting in this regard that a conference was held in 2015 in Vigo, Spain, for this purpose, _______________ 1 2 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363. Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924. 15-16829 (E) *1516829* Please recycle