Full texts of contributions from United Nations agencies, programmes and bodies, as well as other intergovernmental organizations to the report of the Secretary-General on oceans and the law of the sea to the seventieth session of the General Assembly

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Contributions to the first part of the report

  1. Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (OPANAL) including an Executive Summary
  2. Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission (HELCOM)
  3. Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat (BRS)
  4. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR)
  5. Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR)
  6. Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
  7. Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)
  8. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
  9. European Union (EU)
  10. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  11. Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)
  12. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC/UNESCO)
  13. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
  14. International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI)
  15. International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) English | French
  16. International Labour Organization (ILO)
  17. International Maritime Organization (IMO)
  18. International Seabed Authority (ISA)
  19. Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO)
  20. North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization (NASCO)
  21. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
  22. Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (OHRLLS)
  23. Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS)
  24. Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)
  25. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP)
  26. South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO)
  27. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) including an Executive Summary
  28. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
  29. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
  30. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
  31. United Nations University Fisheries Training Programme (UNU-FTP)
  32. World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Contributions to the second part of the report

  1. Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat (CBD), including an Executive Summary
  2. Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), including an Executive Summary
  3. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat (UNFCCC), including a Summary
  4. Comisión Permanente del Pacífico Sur (CPPS)
  5. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
  6. Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) - [Executive Summary]
  7. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), including an Executive Summary
  8. Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) - [Executive Summary]
  9. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), including an Executive Summary
  10. International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT)
  11. International Court of Justice (ICJ) English | French - ICJ Executive Summary [English] | French
  12. International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) English | French
  13. International Labour Organization (ILO), including an Executive Summary
  14. International Maritime Organization (IMO) - [Executive Summary]
  15. International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO), including an Executive Summary
  16. Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), including an Executive Summary
  17. International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC), including an Executive Summary | French | Spanish
  18. International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS)
  19. International Whaling Commission (IWC), including a Summary
  20. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
  21. Oslo and Paris Conventions for the protection of the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR), including an Executive Summary
  22. Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), including an Executive Summary
  23. Pacific Island Forum Secretariat (PIFS)
  24. United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
  25. United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), including a Summary
  26. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) - [Précis]
  27. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  28. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC)
  29. Western and Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), including an Executive Summary
  30. World Meteorological Organization (WMO), including a Summary

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