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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/48/263
17 August 1994
Forty-eighth session
Agenda item 36
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/48/L.60 and Add.1)]
48/263.
Agreement relating to the implementation of Part XI of
the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of
10 December 1982
The General Assembly,
Prompted by the desire to achieve universal participation in the United
Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 1/ (hereinafter
referred to as the Convention) and to promote appropriate representation in
the institutions established by it,
Reaffirming that the seabed and ocean floor and subsoil thereof, beyond
the limits of national jurisdiction (hereinafter referred to as the Area),
as well as the resources of the Area, are the common heritage of mankind, 2/
Recalling that the Convention in its Part XI and related provisions
(hereinafter referred to as Part XI) established a regime for the Area and
its resources,
1/ Official Records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law
of the Sea, vol. XVII (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.84.V.3),
document A/CONF.62/122.
2/ General Assembly resolution 2749 (XXV) of 17 December 1970;
article 136 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.unl/agrelaun0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)