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
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informal consultations of States parties to the Agreement for a duration of two days,
to serve primarily as a preparatory meeting for the resumed Review Conference;
44. Requests the Secretary-General to convene an event, during the eleventh
round of informal consultations of States parties to the Agreement, in 2015, to
commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the
Agreement;
45. Also requests the Secretary-General to prepare a draft provisional agenda
and draft organization of work for the resumed Review Conference and to circulate
them at the same time as the provisional agenda for the eleventh round of informal
consultations of States parties to the Agreement, 60 days in advance of those
consultations;
46. Further requests the Secretary-General to invite States, and entities
referred to in the Convention and in article 1, paragraph 2 (b), of the Agreement, not
parties to the Agreement, as well as the United Nations Development Programme,
the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and other specialized
agencies, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility and other relevant
international financial institutions, subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements, other fisheries bodies, other relevant
intergovernmental bodies and relevant non-governmental organizations, in accordance
with past practice, to attend the eleventh round of informal consultations of States
parties to the Agreement as observers;
47. Reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations initiate arrangements with States for the collection and
dissemination of data on fishing in the high seas by vessels flying their flag at the
subregional and regional levels where no such arrangements exist;
48. Also reaffirms its request that the Food and Agriculture Organization of
the United Nations revise its global fisheries statistics database to provide
information on straddling fish stocks, highly migratory fish stocks and discrete high
seas fish stocks on the basis of where the catch is taken;
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Related fisheries instruments
49. Emphasizes the importance of the effective implementation of the
provisions of the Compliance Agreement, 7 and urges continued efforts in this
regard;
50. Calls upon all States and other entities referred to in article X, paragraph 1,
of the Compliance Agreement that have not yet become parties to that Agreement to
do so as a matter of priority and, in the interim, to consider applying it
provisionally;
51. Urges States and subregional and regional fisheries management
organizations and arrangements to implement and promote the application of the
Code within their areas of competence;
52. Urges States to develop and implement, as a matter of priority, national
and, as appropriate, regional plans of action to put into effect the international plans
of action of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations;
53. Welcomes in this regard the work undertaken by the Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to improve the response rate for
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