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Article: Indian Ocean Committee establishes working group on issues. (establishment of a 'peace zone')
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- UN Chronicle
- Article date:
- July 1, 1985
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Indian Ocean Committee establishes working group on issues
The Ad Hoc Committee on Indian Ocean, at its third and final scheduled session for 1985 (1-12 July), decided by consensus to establish an open-ended working group to "identify, expand and facilitate agreement on substantive issues relating to the establishment of a zone of peace", to assist the Committee in preparing the draft final document of the United Nations Conference on the Indian Ocean.
In 1979, the General Assembly decided to hold an international conference on the Indian Ocean in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to implement the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace, adopted in 1971. The ...