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Table E-2 — United Nations Resolutions — Continued 



2. Requests the ad hoc Committee, in cooperation with the Secretary-General, to 

 prepare, for consideration by the General Assembly at its twenty-third session, a study 

 which would include: 



(a) a survey of the past and present activities of the United Nations, the special- 

 ized agencies, the International Atomic Energy Agency and other inter- 

 governmental bodies with regard to the seabed and the ocean floor, and 

 of existing international agreements concerning these areas ; 



(b) an account of the scientific, technical, economic, legal, and other aspects 

 of this item; 



(c) an indication regarding practical means to promote international coopera- 

 tion in the exploration, conservation and use of the seabed and the ocean 

 floor, and the subsoil thereof, as contemplated in the title of the item, and 

 of their resources, having regard to the views expressed and suggestions 

 put forward by Member States during the consideration of this item at the 

 twenty-second session of the General Assembly ; 



3. /Jegw^jfj the Secretary-General : 



(a) to transmit the text of this resolution to the Governments of all Member 

 States in order to seek their views on the subject ; 



(b) to transmit to the ad hoc Committee the records of the First Committee 

 relating to the discussion of this item; 



(c) to render all appropriate assistance to the ad hoc Committee, including 

 the submission thereto of the results of the studies being undertaken in 

 pursuance of General Assembly resolution 2172 (XXI) and Economic and 

 Social Council resolution 1112 (XL) and such documentation pertinent 

 to this item as may be provided by the United Nations Educational, Scien- 

 tific and Cultural Organization and its Inter-governmental Oceanographic 

 Commission, the Inter-governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, 

 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World 

 Meteorological Organization, the World Health Organization, the Inter- 

 national Atomic Energy Agency and other intergovernmental bodies; 



4. Invites the specialized agencies, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and 

 other intergovernmental bodies to cooperate fully with the ad hoc Committee in the 

 implementation of this resolution. 



1639th plenary meeting, 

 18 December 1967. 



Table E-3— Nations Which Have Ratified, Acceded to, or Consider 

 Themselves Bound by the Geneva Conventions on the Law off the 

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