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STORY: UN / 40 YEARS CONVENTION LAW SEA
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SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 08 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, United Nations Headquarters
08 DECEMBER 2022, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres walking to podium
3. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“The Convention’s 40th anniversary is an important reminder to continue using this critical instrument to tackle today’s challenges. This means swiftly implementing the recently adopted Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. It means continuing the vital work of the Regular Process now underway, to ensure that all decisions about the ocean are underpinned by the best science, and the best economic and social expertise.”
3. Wide shot, General Assembly
4. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It means bringing the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and local communities into the Convention and other related instruments. It means ending the plastic pollution crisis. And it means concluding next year the agreement on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction being negotiated under the Convention.”
5. Wide shot, General Assembly
6. SOUNDBITE (French) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“It’s high time to end the false dichotomy between profit and protection of the ocean. If we fail to protect the ocean and its seas, there can be no profit for anyone.”
7. Wide shot, Secretary-General António Guterres leaving the podium
The UN chief António Guterres said, “It’s high time to end the false dichotomy between profit and protection of the ocean. If we fail to protect the ocean and its seas, there can be no profit for anyone.”
Addressing the General Assembly today (8 Dec) on the 40th anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the Secretary-General said that the Convention’s anniversary is an “important reminder to continue using this critical instrument to tackle today’s challenges.”
He explained, “This means swiftly implementing the recently adopted Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies. It means continuing the vital work of the Regular Process now underway, to ensure that all decisions about the ocean are underpinned by the best science, and the best economic and social expertise.”
He continued, “It means bringing the traditional knowledge of Indigenous peoples and local communities into the Convention and other related instruments. It means ending the plastic pollution crisis. And it means concluding next year the agreement on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction being negotiated under the Convention.”
He said governments should develop laws and policies that put protection and conservation first, while marine industries and investors, should make conservation, protection and climate resilience a top priority, along with worker safety.
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea was adopted in 1982.
It lays down a comprehensive regime of law and order in the world's oceans and seas, establishing rules governing all uses of the oceans and their resources.
It embodies in one instrument traditional rules for the uses of the oceans and, at the same time, introduces new legal concepts and regimes and addresses new concerns.
The Convention also provides the framework for further development of specific areas of the law of the sea.
Among the key provisions of the Convention are the conservation of the world’s fisheries, marine protection, the right to resources within 200 nautical miles of national shorelines, and of increasing importance, the sustainable and equitable management of mineral-related activities in international waters.