Marine Science

A/RES/2560(XXIV)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1970.

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5 subjects

Cooperation Between Organizations Inter-Agency Cooperation International Law Marine Sciences Marine Scientific Research

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Notes with appreciation the comprehensive outline of the scope of a long-term and expanded programme of oceanic exploration and research, of which the international decade of ocean exploration will be an important element, forwarded by the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United N ations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to the Secretary-General and annexed to a note by the Secretary-General on this subject;21

Reaffirms its conviction that any exploration or research carried out under the long-term and expanded programme shall be exclusively scientific in nature and that all such activities falling under the national jurisdiction of a State shall be subject to the previous consent of such State, in accordance with international law;

Requests the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and its Intergovemmental Oceanographic Commission to keep that programme up to date and consider its implementation in appropriate stages, in co-operation with other interested organizations, in particular the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization and the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization;

Urges Member States to co-operate with the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission in the implementation of that programme in appropriate stages;

Commends the close working relations that have developed between the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the United Nations, the Food and Agriculture · Organization of the United Nations, the World Meteorological Organization and the Inter- Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, including the establishment of the Intersecretariat Committee on Scientific Programmes relating to Oceanography, which consists of representatives of the latter organizations, to further, in consultation with the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the common aspects of the work of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and those organízations;

Requests the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the organizations mentioned in paragraph 5 above to continue to work closely together for the furtherance of their common objectives, within their own terms of reference;

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the Economic and Social Council on the progress made in the updating and implementation of that programme.

13 December 1969.

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