Appendices 



Table E-2 — United Nations Resolutions — Continued 



Considering the need to maximize international cooperative efforts for the further 

 development of marine science and technology and to avoid duplication or overlapping 

 of efforts in this field : 



1. Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1112 (XL) of 7 March 1966 

 requesting the Secretary-General to make a survey of the present state of knowledge 

 of the resources of the sea beyond the Continental Shelf, excluding fish, and of the 

 techniques for exploiting these resources ; 



2. Requests the Secretary-General — in cooperation with the United Nations Educa- 

 tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization and, in particular, its Inter-governmental 

 Oceanographic Commission, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 

 Nations and, in particular, its Committee on Fisheries, the World Meteorological 

 Organization, other intergovernmental organizations concerned, and the governments 

 of interested member states, and utilizing, inter alia, such voluntary services as may be 

 offered- — to undertake, in addition to the survey requested by the Economic and Social 

 Council, a comprehensive survey of activities in marine science and technology, including 

 that relating to mineral resources development, undertaken by members of the United 

 Nations family of organizations, various member states and intergovernmental organi- 

 zations concerned, as well as by universities, scientific and technological institutes, and 

 other interested organizations ; 



3. Requests the Secretary-General, in cooperation with the United Nations Educa- 

 tional, Scientific and Cultural Organization and, in particular, its Inter-governmental 

 Oceanographic Commission and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United 

 Nations and, in particular, its Committee on Fisheries, and in the light of the above- 

 mentioned comprehensive survey to formulate proposals for: 



(a) Ensuring the most effective arrangements for an expanded program of 

 international cooperation to assist in a better understanding of the marine environment 

 through science and in the exploitation and development of marine resources, with due 

 regard to the conservation offish stocks; 



{b) Initiating and strengthening marine education and training programs, 

 bearing in mind the close interrelationship between marine and other sciences ; 



4. Requests the Secretary-General to set up a small group of experts to be selected, 

 as far as possible, from the specialized agencies and intergovernmental organizations 

 concerned, to assist him in the preparation of the comprehensive survey called for in 

 paragraph 2 above and in the formulation of the proposals referred to in paragraph 3 

 above ; 



5. Requests that the survey and proposals prepared by the Secretary-General be 

 submitted to the Advisory Committee on the Application of Science and Technology 

 to Development for its comments; 



6. Requests the Secretary-General to submit his survey and proposals, together 

 with the comments of the Advisory Committee, to the General Assembly at its twenty- 

 third session, through the Economic and Social Council. 



1485th plenary meeting, 

 6 December 1966. 



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