Question follow-through · 35828

Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for ratifying the United Nations Global Ocean Treaty.

answeredForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office

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Answering body: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
Tabled: 5 Mar 2025
Target answer date: 7 Mar 2025
Answer: 18 Mar 2025 · 13 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what his Department's timetable is for ratifying the United Nations Global Ocean Treaty.
7 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
18 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Government is completely committed to ratification of the Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement,...

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