A/RES/76/72
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 78 (a)
Oceans and the law of the sea: oceans and the law of the sea
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 9 December 2021
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.20 and A/76/L.20/Add.1)]
76/72.
Oceans and the law of the sea
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its annual resolutions on the law of the sea and on oceans and the
law of the sea, including resolution 75/239 of 31 December 2020, as well as other
relevant resolutions concerning the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
(the Convention), 1
Recalling, in this regard, resolution 72/249 of 24 December 2017 on an
international legally binding instrument under the Convention on the conservation and
sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction,
and decision 75/570 of 22 June 2021;
Taking into account the continuing situation concerning the coronavirus disease
(COVID-19) and the limitations recommended on meetings within the United Nations
premises as precautionary measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19,
Underscoring the importance of the work undertaken by the intergovernmental
conference to elaborate the text of an international legally binding instrument under
the Convention on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity
of areas beyond national jurisdiction,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General, 2 the report on the work
of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global
Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including
Socioeconomic Aspects (the Regular Process), 3 the report on the work of the United
Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
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United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 1833, No. 31363.
A/75/70, A/76/311 and A/76/311/Add.1.
A/76/391.
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