A/RES/68/71 United Nations Distr.: General 25 February 2014 General Assembly Sixty-eighth session Agenda item 76 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 9 December 2013 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/L.19 and Add.1)] 68/71. 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 67/79 of 11 December 2012, 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 10 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, Welcoming also the work of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its Committee on Fisheries, and recognizing in particular the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (the Code) and other related instruments, including the international plans of action, which set out principles and global standards of behaviour for responsible practices for conservation of fisheries _______________ 1 2 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363. Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924. 13-44371 *1344371* Please recycle