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calling relevant international agreements and conventions,

luding the International Conventions for the Safety of Life Sea (SOLAS), 1960 and 1974, and the Protocol of 1978, which :ablish specific safety standards for certain passenger

ps, require each state party to take the necessary steps to sure that no vessel covered by the Convention and flying its g is permitted to carry passengers on international voyages ess it meets the SOLAS standards, and requires each port te party to prevent a foreign flag passenger vessel from Ting from its port when the condition of the ship or of its ipment is not in compliance with the SOLAS convention;

alling the undertaking of States Party to the Supplementary vention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade, and titutions and Practices Similar to Slavery, signed at Geneva 7 September 1956, to take all practicable and necessary islative and other measures to bring about progressively and soon as possible the complete abolition or abandonment of

practice of debt bondage;

ognizing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of ces, including their right to control their own borders;

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cerned that alien smuggling undermines public confidence in cies and procedures for immigration and for protection of gees;

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ng that alien smuggling can involve criminal elements in Lor planet?

States, including the State or States where the smuggling me was planned, the State of nationality of the aliens, the e where the means of transport was prepared the flag state ny vessels or aircraft which transport the aliens, States ugh which the aliens transit to their destination or in r to be repatriated, and the State of destination;

ng into account the efforts of the United Nations High issioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the International nization for Migration (IOM), the International Civil tion Organization (ICAO) and the International Maritime

ization (IMO) in responding to requests from states for stance in dealing with alien smuggling;

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sizing the need for States to cooperate urgently to thwart è activities;

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condemns the practice of alien smuggling in violation of

national and national law, and without regard for the y and well-being and human rights of the migrants;