This article discusses the current negotiations for an Implementing Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction. It discusses, in particular, the issue of the relationship of the new agreement with existing and future relevant regional instruments and bodies and the need for cooperation and coordination amongst them, the guiding principles of the new agreement, and the question of implementation and enforcement of the new agreement. These issues and the choices that delegations will make respectively highlight the controversy on the underpinning tenet of the agreement, ie between the ‘freedom of the high seas’ and the common heritage of mankind. The article concludes with a pessimistic prognosis that, in general, the agreement will fall short of the expectations that many States and international community have had at the early days of the negotiation.

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根据联合国海洋法公约关于海洋生物多样性的新实施协议的谈判

本文讨论了目前根据《联合国海洋法公约》就国家管辖范围以外区域海洋生物多样性的保护和可持续利用的实施协议进行的谈判。它特别讨论了新协议与现有和未来相关区域文书和机构的关系问题以及它们之间合作与协调的必要性、新协议的指导原则以及实施和执行的问题。新协议。这些问题以及各代表团将做出的选择分别突出了该协议的基本原则，即“公海自由”与人类共同遗产之间的争议。文章最后给出了一个悲观的预测，一般来说，