Preparatory Meeting for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference
Tue 02 Jul 2024, 10.00 amRelated
Background
As mandated in the General Assembly resolution 78/128, the President of the General Assembly will convene a preparatory meeting, on 2 July 2024 at United Nations Headquarters in New York, to be chaired by the two host countries of the Conference, Costa Rica and France, to consider the themes for the Ocean Action panels and elements for the declaration, taking into the call by Member States for a brief, concise, action-oriented and intergovernmentally agreed declaration.
As requested by the same resolution, a Background Note has been prepared in coordination with the two Presidents of the Conference, which included a proposal for themes of the Ocean Action panels, for the preparatory meeting.
Documents:
President of the General Assembly transmitting the preliminary programme of the Preparatory Meeting
Background Note (final version) for the Preparatory Meeting for the 2025 UNOC A/78/880
Important resource:
Participation of representatives of accredited non-governmental organizations, major groups and other stakeholders is available here.
Links to webcast:
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k12/k123uzfvup
https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k19/k19fjm9onv
Statements delivered during the Preparatory Meeting for the 2025 UN Ocean Conference
- PGA
- Mr. Li Junhua, Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs
- Ambassador Peter Thomson, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean
- DOALOS
- UNESCO
- Bangladesh
- Dominican Republic
- Japan
- Norway
- Russian Federation
- Singapore
Stakeholders
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