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De siring to promote effective measures of prevention and control of such 

 pollution and to allay the serious damage which might be caused to the marine 

 environment and, in particular, to the living marine resources which constitute 

 one of mankind's most valuable food resources. 



Recognizing the complex problem of ensuring effective co-ordination in the 

 wide field of environmental pollution and in the more specific area of prevention 

 and control of marine pollution, 



Noting with satisfaction the measures being undertaken by the Inter-Governmental 

 Maritime Consultative Organization to prevent and control pollution of the sea by 

 preparing new draft conventions and other instruments for that purpose, 



Recalling , in this regard, the progress achieved towards such concerted action 

 by intergovernmental bodies and the establishment, by the Food and Agriculture 

 Organization of the United Nations, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and 

 Cultural Organization and its Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, the 

 Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization and the World Meteorological 

 Organization, of a joint group of experts on the scientific aspects of marine 

 pollution, 



Recalling further the competence and continuing valuable contributions of the 

 other intergovernmental organizations concerned, 



1. Welcomes the adoption by States of appropriate safeguards against the 

 dangers of pollution and other hazardous and harmful effects that might arise from 

 the exploration and exploitation of the resources of the sea-bed and the ocean 

 floor, and the subsoil thereof, beyond the limits of national jurisdiction, notably 

 in the form of concrete measures of international co-operation for the purpose of 

 realizing this aim; 



2. Considers that, in connexion with the elaboration of principles underlying 

 possible future international agreements for the area concerned, a study should 



be made with a view to clarifying all aspects of protection of the living and 

 other resources of the sea-bed and ocean floor, the superjacent waters and the 

 adjacent coasts against the consequences of pollution and other hazardous and 

 harmful effects arising from various modalities of such exploration and 

 exploitation; 



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