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Exploration a useful initiative for broadening and accelerating investigations 

 of the oceans and for strengthening international co-operation. 



Endorsing the objectives expressed in Economic and .Social Council resolutions 

 1580 (XLV), 1581 (XLV) and I582 (XLVj of 2 August I968 and recalling particularly 

 the invitation to the General Assembly to endorse the concept of a co-ordinated 

 long-term programme of oceanographic research, taking into account such initiatives 

 as the proposal for an International Decade of Ocean Exploration and international 

 programmes already considered, approved and adopted by the Intergovernmental 

 Oceanographic Commission for implementation in co-operation with other specialized 

 agencies. 



Aware of the consideration given to the proposal in the Ad Hoc Committee to 

 Study the Peaceful Uses of the Sea-Bed and the Ocean Floor beyond the Limits of 

 National Jurisdiction, arising from the contribution which the International 

 Decade of Ocean Exploration would make to scientific research and exploration of 

 the sea-bed and ocean floor, as an important part of a co-ordinated long-term 

 international programme of oceanographic research, 



Seeking to enrich the knowledge of all mankind by encouraging a free flow 

 of scientific information on the oceans to all States, 



1. Welcomes the concept of an International Decade of Ocean Exploration 

 to be undertaken within the framework of a long-term programme of research and 

 exploration, including scientific research and exploration of the sea-bed and the 

 ocean floor, under the aegis of the United Nations on the understanding that all 

 such activities falling under the national jurisdiction of a State shall be 

 subject to the previous consent of such State, in accordance with international 

 law; 



2. Invites Member States to formulate proposals for national and 

 international scientific programmes and agreed activities to be undertaken during 

 the International Decade of Ocean Exploration with due regard to the interests 



of developing countries, to transmit these proposals to the United Nations 

 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for the Intergovernmental 

 Oceanographic Commission in time to begin the Decade in 1970, and to embark on 

 such activities as soon as practicable; 



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