A/RES/67/79* United Nations Distr.: General 30 April 2013 General Assembly Sixty-seventh session Agenda item 75 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 11 December 2012 [without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.22 and Add.1)] 67/79. 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 66/68 of 6 December 2011, 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 Noting with appreciation the activities organized by the Secretary-General to mark the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the Convention, in cooperation with States, United Nations agencies, funds and programmes, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations and other relevant bodies, and welcoming the Declaration on the thirtieth anniversary of the opening for signature of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, adopted by States Parties to the Convention at their twenty-second Meeting, 3 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 _______________ * Reissued for technical reasons on 15 July 2013. 1 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363. 2 Ibid., vol. 2167, No. 37924. 3 SPLOS/249. 12-48334* *1248334* Please recycle