Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 66 Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, published in 1986.

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2025	A/RES/80/13	Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace	517	–
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2021	A/RES/76/17	Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace	505	–
2019	A/RES/74/25	Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace	500	–
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Conferences Consultations Declarations Indian Ocean Region Participants Work Organization Zones of Peace

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Takes note of the report of the Ad Hoe Committee on the Indian Ocean 107 and the exchange of views in the Committee;

Emphasizes its decision to convene the Conference on the Indian Ocean at Colombo as a necessary step for the implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, adopted in 1971;

Notes that the Ad Hoe Committee has been unable, during 1985, to complete preparatory work relating to the convening of the Conference on the Indian Ocean and

urges the Committee to continue its work with vigour and determination;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee, taking into account the political and security climate in the region, to complete preparatory work relating to the Conference on the Indian Ocean during 1986 in order to enable the opening of the Conference at Colombo at an early date soon thereafter, but not later than 1988, to be decided by the Committee in consultation with the host country;

Emphasizes that the Conference called for in its resolution 34/80 B and subsequent resolutions and the establishment and maintenance of the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace require the full and active participation and cooperation of all the permanent members of the Security Council, the major maritime users and the littoral and hinterland States;

Decides that preparatory work would comprise organizational matters and substantive issues, including the provisional agenda for the Conference, rules of procedure, participation, stages of the Conference, level of representation, documentation, consideration of appropriate arrangements for any international agreements that may ultimately be reached for the maintenance of the Indian Ocean as a zone of peace and the preparation of the draft final document of the Conference;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee at the same time to seek the necessary harmonization of views on remaining relevant issues;

Requests the Chairman of the Ad Hoe Committee to consult the Secretary-General, at the appropriate time, on the establishment of a secretariat for the Conference;

Renews the mandate of the Ad Hoe Committee as defined in the relevant resolutions, and requests the Committee to intensify its work with regard to the implementation of its mandate;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee to hold three preparatory sessions in 1986 ofa duration of two weeks each, for completion of the preparatory work;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee to submit to the Conference a report on its preparatory work;

Requests the Chairman of the Ad Hoe Committee to continue his consultations on the participation in the work of the Committee by States Members of the United Nations that are not members of the Committee, with the aim of resolving this matter at the earliest possible date;

Requests the Ad Hoe Committee to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-first session a full report on the implementation of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to render all necessary assistance to the Ad Hoe Committee, including the provision of summary records, in recognition of its preparatory function.

l 17th plenary meeting

16 December 1985

io4 N40/498.

IOJ Official Rewrd.1 o(the (;,,nera/ •luemN, Fortieth S,•uwri. Supplement IOS Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supple- Nu. 19 (A/40/29). ment No. 45 (N34t45 and Corr.I).

I06See NAC.159/SR.266-272, 274, 277-279, 281-285. 28: and 288 and Al AC. l 59/SR.263-292/Corrigendum.

108 /h,d., Supplement No 28 (A/40/28).

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