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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
226. Invites the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to
continue its cooperative arrangements with United Nations agencies on the
implementation of the international plans of action;
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227. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for the activities of the
Division, which reflect the high standard of assistance provided to Member States by
the Division;
228. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to carry out the responsibilities
and functions entrusted to him by the Convention, the Agreement and the related
resolutions of the General Assembly and to ensure the allocation of appropriate
resources to the Division for the performance of its activities under the approved
budget for the Organization;
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229. Requests the Secretary-General to bring the present resolution to the
attention of all States, relevant intergovernmental organizations, the organizations
and bodies of the United Nations system, subregional and regional fisheries
management organizations and relevant non-governmental organizations;
230. Notes the desire to further improve the efficiency of and the effective
participation of delegations in the informal consultations concerning t he annual
General Assembly resolution on sustainable fisheries, decides that the informal
consultations on this resolution will be held in a single round of consultations in
November for a period of six days, requests the Secretary-General to provide support
to the consultations through the Division, and invites States to submit proposals for
inclusion in the text of the resolution to the Coordinator of the informal consultations
no later than five weeks before the start of the consultations;
231. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session,
under the item entitled “Oceans and the law of the sea”, the sub-item entitled
“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 ”, and to consider
the possibility of including this sub-item in future provisional agendas on a biennial
basis.
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5 December 2017
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17-21818