A/RES/68/24. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/24
• Year: 2013
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

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9 December 2013

Sixty-eighth session

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 December 2013

[on the report of the First Committee (A/68/402)]

68/24. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as

a Zone of Peace

The Genera l Assem bly

,

Reca lling

th e Decla ration of the India n Ocea n as a Zone of Pea ce, con tained in

its resol ution 2832 (XXVI) of 16 De cember 1971 , an d rec alling also its resolu tions

54/47 o f 1 De cember 1999, 56/16 of 2 9 Nove mber 2001, 58/29 of 8 De cembe r

2003 , 60/48 of 8 Decemb er 2 005, 62/14 of 5 Decemb er 20 07, 64/23 o f 2 D ecembe r

2009 and 66/22 of 2 Dece mber 2 011 and other r elevant resol utions,

Reca lling also

the r eport of the Meetin g of the Litt oral and Hinterl and States

of t he Indi an Oce an, hel d in N ew York fro m 2 to 13 Jul y 1979 ,

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Reca lling fur ther

p aragra ph 102 of the Fina l Doc ument of the Th irteent h

Conf erence o f Heads o f S tate or Go vernme nt of Non- Aligne d Countr ies, held i n

Kual a Lu mpur on 24 a nd 2 5 Febr uary 2003,

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in whic h it was note d, in ter alia, that

the Chai r of the Ad Hoc Comm ittee on the I ndian Oce an wou ld co ntinue his

info rmal co nsulta tions o n the f uture work of the Co mmitte e,

Emphasizing

the need to fo ster cons ensual ap proache s t hat are cond ucive to

the pursuit of suc h ende avours,

Noting

th e ini tiative s take n by count ries o f the regio n to promot e coo peratio n,

in parti cular econo mic c oopera tion, in t he Ind ian O cean area and the pos sible

cont ributio n of s uch ini tiative s to ove rall o bjectiv es of a zone o f peac e,

Convinced

that the par ticipat ion of al l perma nent me mbers o f the Se curity

Cou ncil and the majo r maritim e u sers of the India n O cean in the wor k o f th e A d

Hoc Com mittee is i mporta nt an d wou ld as sist the p rogres s of a m utually bene ficial

dial ogue to d evelop con ditions of peac e, se curity and stabi lity in t he I ndian Ocean

regi on,

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1

Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and corrigendum

(A/34/45 and Corr.1).

2

A/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.