United Nations General Assembly (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 25 September 2015
(A/RES/70/71)
United Nations General Assembly (2017) Oceans and the law of the sea, Resolution adopted by the
General Assembly on 5 December 2017 (A/RES/72/73)
United Nations General Assembly (2018) Oceans and the law of the sea, Report of the SecretaryGeneral (A/73/368)
Miguel de Serpa Soares Appointed as Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United
Nations Legal Counsel in September 2013. Designated Focal Point for UN-Oceans, an inter-agency
mechanism to strengthen and promote coordination and coherence of United Nations system
activities related to ocean and coastal areas. He was also appointed by the Secretary-General of
the United Nations as Secretary-General of the Intergovernmental Conference on an international
legally binding instrument 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.
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