Expresses its satisfaction at the increasing and overwhelming support for the Convention, as evidenced, inter alia, by the one hundred and fifty-nine signatures and forty-five of the sixty ratifications or accessions required for entry into force of the Convention;
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Invitesall States to make renewed efforts to facilitate universal participation in the Convention;
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Calls uponall States that have not done so to consider ratifying or acceding to the Convention at the earliest possible date to allow the effective entry into force of the new legal regime for the uses of the sea and its resources;
Calls upon all States to safeguard the unified 5. character of the Convention and related resolutions
adopted therewith and to apply them in a manner consistent with that character and with their object and purpose;
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Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford
77 See N44/650 and Corr.I, paras. 156 and 158.
18 Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the 80 See N45/721 and Corr.I, para. 14. Law of the Sea, vol. X:VII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3), document NCONF.62/121, annex I.
81 N38/570 and Corr.I and Add.I and Add.1/Corr.l.
79 LOS/PCN/113.
82 N45/72 I and Corr. l.
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INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO ERADICATE APARTHEID 83 LOS/PCN/L87, annex.
85 N45/712. 84 See N45/721 and Corr.I, paras. 16-19.
