A/RES/72/21. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2017

• Resolution Number: A/RES/72/21
• Year: 2017
• Session: 72nd
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations

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/RES /72/ 21

General Assembly

Distr. : Genera l

11 De cember 2017

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Seventy -secon d session

Agen da item 91

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly

on 4 December 2017

[on th e report of the First Committ ee (A/72 /401 )]

72/21. Implem entation of the D eclara tion o f the Indian Ocea n as a Zone

of Pea ce

The General Assembly ,

Reca llin g th e Decla ration o f the Indian Ocean a s a Zon e of Pea ce, con tained in

its resolut ion 2 832 (XXVI ) of 16 Dec ember 1971, and recalli ng als o its resol utions

54/4 7 of 1 Dece mber 19 99, 56/ 16 of 2 9 Novemb er 200 1, 58/2 9 o f 8 Dece mber

2003 , 60/4 8 of 8 De cember 2005, 62/14 of 5 Decembe r 200 7, 64/23 o f 2 Dec ember

2009 , 6 6/2 2 o f 2 Decemb er 2011 , 6 8/24 o f 5 Decembe r 2013 a nd 70/2 2 of

7 Dece mber 20 15 and o ther re levant r esolutio ns,

Reca lling also the report of t he Me eting of t he Li ttoral and Hinterl and S tates

of th e India n Ocean, held in New York from 2 to 13 Ju ly 1979,

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Reca lling furt her p aragraph 102 of the Final Docu ment o f the Thirte enth

Conf erence of He ads of State o r G overnme nt of Non -Aligned Co untries, h eld in

Kual a Lum pur o n 24 and 25 Feb ruary 2003,

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i n whi ch it was noted, inte r alia , tha t

the Cha ir of the Ad Hoc Co mmittee on the India n Ocea n would conti nue his

infor mal con sultatio ns on t he futu re work of the C ommitte e,

Emph asiz ing the need to fost er c onsensu al approac hes that are condu cive to

the p ursuit of such endeavo urs,

Noti ng the in itiative s taken by countrie s of the reg ion to promo te coop eration ,

in parti cular econ omic c ooperati on, in the India n Ocea n area and the poss ible

cont ribution of such initiat ives to overall object ives of a zone o f peace,

Conv ince d th at the par ticipatio n of all pe rmanent members of the Sec urity

Coun cil and the maj or marit ime user s of the Indian Ocean in t he work of t he

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Officia l Reco rds of t he Gen eral As sembly, Thirty -fourt h Sessi on, Su ppleme nt No. 45 and

corri gendu m (A/3 4/45 an d A/34/4 5/Co rr.1).

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A/57/75 9-S/2 003 /332 , ann ex I .