These States are SOLAS Contracting Governments are under the purview of the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the IMO.

187. The Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation approved for adoption by MSC an area to be avoided lying on the separation line between traffic separation lanes in the Strait of Dover traffic separation scheme.20

The Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation approved for adoption by MSC a mandatory ship reporting system in the Strait of Dover.26

237. Amendments to chapter VI of the SOLAS Convention were adopted at the sixty ninth session of MSC by resolution MSC.69(69) of 18 May 1998.

During the period under review, Greenpeace International has participated in meetings of the IMO Assembly, the IMO Council, the IMO Marine Environment Protection Committee, the IMO Maritime Safety Committee, the IMO Legal Committee and a number of subcommittees and ad hoc working groups.

Maritime Security

Maritime security and crimes at sea

Administrative committees on security and administrative committees charged with customs control have actually been set up jointly between the Jamahiriya and those two States.

GOOS Global Ocean Observing System (IOC)

Maritime security

225. The Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation at its sixth session in June 1998, approved a Flag State Performance Self Assessment Form, for final approval by the Marine Environment Protection Committee and MSC.

The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of IMO, in an effort to address a number of practical problems which have arisen either during the stage of the initial implementation of the special measures to enhance maritime security or following their entry into force as a result of the approach a taken by a number of States which are SOLAS Contracting Government, has adopted a number of performance standards, recommendations and guidance notes.

GOOS Global Ocean Observing System (UNEP IOC WMO ISCU)

Through the Global Technical Co operation Programme on Maritime Security, the IMO Secretariat has continued to take a proactive role in assisting Member States to comply with the Special measures to enhance maritime security.

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region report of the First Committee (A 60 468)

National Security Council

Maritime safety and security

198. Since this was the first time that IMO had adopted a system of archipelagic sea lanes, MSC decided that it was important to explain to mariners the operational significance to the navigation of ships engaged in archipelagic sea lanes passage in waters where archipelagic sea lanes had been designated, and instructed the Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation to develop a safety of navigation circular, inviting the archipelagic States concerned to participate in this exercise.

International Maritime Committee

The Council and Committee should continue to encourage international cooperation in improving maritime security, including the valuable work being done by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and its 164 member States.

Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region report of the First Committee (A 52 605) 76

The WMO Commission for Marine Meteorology, the joint IOC WMO Committee for Integrated Global Ocean Services System and the IOC Committee for the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange maintain a high level of interest in the use of satellites for both ocean observation and marine communications.

The WMO Commission for Marine Meteorology, the joint IOC WMO Committee for Integrated Global Ocean Services System and the IOC Committee for the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange maintain a high level of interest in the use of satellites for both ocean observation and marine communications.

190. The Maritime Safety Committee at its sixty ninth session considered the revised proposal by Indonesia for the designation of archipelagic sea lanes in its archipelagic waters (MSC 69 5 2) and the draft General Provisions for the adoption, designation and substitution of archipelagic sea lanes prepared at the forty third session of the Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation (NAV 43 15, annex 4).

COPUOS Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

15 Report of the 69th session of the MSC, MSC 69 22, para. 5.7 and annex 6.

(a) Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee)

141. At its sixty ninth session, the Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of IMO was invited to consider draft guidelines for the prevention and suppression of unsafe practices associated with the trafficking or transport of migrants by sea proposed by Italy (MSC 69 WP.1 this document revoked MSC 69 21 2).

The Subcommittee recommended the adoption of a regional declaration on road safety and the organization of an exhibition on road safety at the Conference.

15. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region report of the First Committee (A 52 605) 76 .

Sea border security system

The Commission on Human Rights welcomes the establishment of the National Commission on Disarmament as an important contribution to the long term restoration of security in Haiti, and takes note of the resolve of the Haitian transitional authorities to initiate the process of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration.

A committee of member states should be formed and headed by the GCC's Under Secretary for security to help develop the GCC Center and expand it to cover a range of other issues The First phase create a virtual center that works on deterrence, planning, and response to incidents.

The GMDSS also provides for urgency and safety communications and the dissemination of maritime safety information, including navigational and meteorological warnings.

Activities of the IMO Secretariat

189. Having noted the statement of Turkey, the Committee instructed the Subcommittee on the Safety of Navigation at its forty fourth session to commence work on a new report which would cover all the relevant aspects.22

251. The draft resolution on Recommendations on Training of Personnel on Mobile Offshore Units, which MSC approved for submission to the IMO Assembly at its twenty first session in 1999, are aimed at ensuring adequate levels of safety of life and property at sea and protection of the marine environment complementary to that required by the STCW Convention as amended and the STCW Code.

41. Welcomes the work of the International Maritime Organization in developing amendments to the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea and to the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue on the delivery of persons rescued at sea to a place of safety

184. Security Council Commission established under Security Council resolution 446 (1979)

212. Security Council Commission established under Security Council resolution 446 (1979)

The State of Qatar joins the other fraternal members of the Gulf Cooperation Council in their endeavour to promote security and stability in the Gulf region, which is of strategic and vital importance to the entire world.

Since February 2002, the MSC established the Maritime Security Working Group (MSWG) which meets during each session of the MSC, in parallel to the plenary session and intersessionally when required.

Committee for European Security and Cooperation

The amendments to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) that were adopted by the 1988 Conference of Contracting Governments entered into force on 1 February 1992, introducing GMDSS.

The amendments to the 1974 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) that were adopted by the 1988 Conference of Contracting Governments entered into force on 1 February 1992, introducing GMDSS.