General Assembly Considers Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity

Dennis Francis (left), President of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, chairs the 72nd plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

During the meeting the General Assembly heard from the Head of the International Mechanism for Investigating, Prosecuting Crimes in Syria. Under other business, the General Assembly considered a number of draft resolutions and decisions that the Fifth Committee recommended for adoption. One of them was the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction, introduced by Singapore.