A/RES/21+1U ( XXIII ) 

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Recallin;^ the report of the .Ad Hoc Committee to Study the Peaceful Uses of 

 ea-?ed and the Ccean Floor beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction,—' 

 Taking into account the activities in this field at present being carried out 



"by the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 

 Organization and its Intergovernirifutul fJceanographic Comriiisbion, the Food and 

 Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and its Committee on Fisheries, 

 the World Meteorological Organization and its Panel on Meteorologies 1 Aspects 

 of Ccean Affairs, the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization, the 

 International Atomic Energy Agency and other specialized agencies, and also 

 intergovernmental organizations, various Governments, universities, scientific 

 and technical institutes and other non-governrnental organizations, 



1. Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General 

 entitled "Marine science and technology survey and proposals"; 



2. Requests the Economic and Social Council to review further this report 

 at its forty-seventh session taking into account such viev/s as may be expressed 

 by Governments of Member States, by the Advisory Committee on the Application of 

 Science and Technology to Development and by the proposed competent organ of 

 the United Nations: 



3. Endorses the concept of a co-ordinated long-term prograirmie of 

 oceanographic research designed to assist in a better understanding of the marine 

 environment through science and to increase, in the interests of world economic 

 development, the resources available to all the people of the world; 



k. Requests the Secretary-General to present to the Economic and Social 

 Council at its forty-seventh session a comprehensive outline of the scope of this 

 long-term programme taking into account such scientific recommendations as may be 

 formulated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of the United 

 Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization within its terms of 

 reference and in co-operation with other interested international organizations; 



5. Recorfimends that the United Rations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 

 Organization and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission should consider 

 strengthening the existing marine educational and training programmes and 

 initiating new programmes in connexion with the implementation of the long-term 

 programme of oceanographic research; 



3/ Offici_jl Records of the General Assembly, Tvfenty-thlr- i IJ .■■.r; i'in , 

 docui.'.cnt A/7230. 



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