RECALLING Article 15(j) of the Convention on the International Maritime
Organization concerning the functions of the Assembly in relation to regulations and
guidelines concerning maritime safety and the prevention and control of marine pollution
from ships,
RECALLING FURTHER resolution A.377(X) by which it established
procedures for the adoption and amendment of routeing systems other than traffic
separation schemes,
HAVING CONSIDERED the reports of the Maritime Safety Committee at its
sixty-third, sixty-fourth and sixty-fifth sessions,
1. CONFIRMS the adoption by the Organization of the new and
amended routeing measures other than traffic separation schemes set out in Annex 1 to the
present resolution;
2. CONFIRMS ALSO the adoption by the Organization of the Rules
and Recommendations on Navigation through the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Canakkale
and the Marmara Sea set out in Annex 2 to the present resolution;
3. CONFIRMS FURTHER that the Rules and Recommendations on
Navigation through the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Canakkale and the Marmara Sea are
established purely for the purpose of safety of navigation and environmental protection
and are not intended in any way to affect or prejudice the rights of any ship using the
Straits under international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the
Sea, 1982 and the 1936 Montreux Convention, and that national regulations promulgated by
the coastal State should be in total conformity with the said rules and recommendations;
4. INVITES Governments to bring the Rules and Recommendations,
set out in Annex 2, to the attention of shipowners, shipmasters and seafarers of ships
which use the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Canakkale and the Marmara Sea and to
ensure that these Rules and Recommendations are available on board such ships for
information and compliance;
5. REQUESTS the Maritime Safety Committee to review, on the basis
of submissions from Governments, the operation of the Rules and Recommendations set out in
Annex 2 and the conditions in the Strait of Istanbul, the Strait of Canakkale and the
Marmara Sea, to consider, as appropriate, any suggestions for changes in the said Rules
and Recommendations and to report on these matters to the next session of the Assembly;
6. CONFIRMS FURTHER the adoption of amendments to the General
Provisions on Ships' Routeing consequential to the adoption of new SOLAS regulation V/8
set out in Annex 3 to the present resolution.
