A/RES/76/17
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 93
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a
Zone of Peace
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on
6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/437, para. 7)]
76/17.
Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone
of Peace
The General Assembly,
Recalling the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, contained in
its resolution 2832 (XXVI) of 16 December 1971, and recalling also its resolutions
54/47 of 1 December 1999, 56/16 of 29 November 2001, 58/29 of 8 December 2003,
60/48 of 8 December 2005, 62/14 of 5 December 2007, 64/23 of 2 December 2009,
66/22 of 2 December 2011, 68/24 of 5 December 2013, 70/22 of 7 December 2015,
72/21 of 4 December 2017 and 74/25 of 12 December 2019 and other relevant
resolutions,
Recalling also the report of the Meeting of the Littoral and Hinterland States of
the Indian Ocean, held in New York from 2 to 13 July 1979, 1
Recalling further paragraph 102 of the Final Document of the Thirteenth
Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, held in
Kuala Lumpur on 24 and 25 February 2003, 2 in which it was noted, inter alia, that the
Chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean would continue his infor mal
consultations on the future work of the Committee,
Emphasizing the need to foster consensual approaches that are conducive to the
pursuit of such endeavours,
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 45 and
corrigendum (A/34/45 and A/34/45/Corr.1).
A/57/759-S/2003/332, annex I.
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