Azerbaijan takes part in 27th Assembly of IMO
Baku, November 21 (AZERTAC). Azerbaijan’s delegation led by Gudrat Gurbanov, Chief of State Maritime Administration of Azerbaijan Republic, takes part in the 27th Assembly of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) organized in London at IMO Headquarters. The event kicked off on November 21 and will run until November 30, 2011.
All 170 Member States and three Associate Members are entitled to attend the Assembly, which is IMO’s highest governing body. The intergovernmental organizations with which agreements of co-operation have been concluded and non-governmental organizations in consultative status with IMO are also invited to attend.
The Assembly normally meets once every two years in regular session. It is responsible for approving the work programme, voting the budget and determining the financial arrangements of the Organization. It also elects the Organization’s 40-Member Council.
The Assembly will review the work carried out by the Organization during the biennium 2010 - 2011, through the Council, the five IMO Committees and the Secretariat.
Also high on the agenda during the biennium has been piracy, the escalation of which, in recent years, has been a matter of great concern and has prompted IMO to make combating it a central theme of its work in 2011.
The Organization’s updated strategic and high-level action plans and the related results-based budget for 2012-2013 will be presented to the Assembly for adoption.
A number of draft resolutions have been submitted by the various IMO Committees for adoption by the Assembly, which will also consider, for adoption, any resolutions submitted by the Council’s 26th Extraordinary Session. The topics covered by such resolutions include: piracy and armed robbery against ships in waters off the coast of Somalia; further development of the IMO Member State Audit Scheme; pilot transfer arrangements; the World-wide Radio Navigation System; principles of minimum safe manning and many others.
Certificates of Commendation will also be presented to a number of other nominees and special certificates will be presented to the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centres of Falmouth (United Kingdom) and Stavanger (Norway).
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