[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 108 (Wednesday, June 7, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26565-26566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-11811]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 10021]


Notice of Public Meeting

    The Department of State will conduct an open meeting at 9:00 a.m. 
on Wednesday, July 12, 2017, in Room 5L18-01 of the Douglas A. Munro 
Coast Guard Headquarters Building at St. Elizabeth's, 2703 Martin 
Luther King Jr. Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20593. The primary purpose 
of the meeting is to prepare for the sixty-seventh session of the 
International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Technical Cooperation 
Committee (TCC 67) to be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, 
17-19 July, 2017 and the one hundred and eighteenth session of the

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IMO Council (C 118) to be held at the IMO Headquarters, United Kingdom, 
24-28 July, 2017.
    The agenda items to be considered include:
Sixty-Seventh Session of the Technical Co-Operation Committee
--Adoption of the agenda
--Work of other bodies and organizations
--Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme (Annual report for 2016 & 
Programme for 2018 and 2019)
--Financing of the Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme 
(Technical Cooperation Fund Allocation for 2018 and 2019, Review and 
revision of the 2007 Strategy on the long-term financing of the 
Integrated Technical Cooperation Programme, and Sustainable financing)
--The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (Maritime transport 
policy development, Country Maritime Profiles, Related developments 
within the United Nations system, Linkage with IMO's technical 
assistance work, and Revision of the Assembly resolutions relating to 
technical cooperation)
--Partnerships (Regional presence and coordination and Partnership 
arrangements)
--Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme and IMO Member States Audit 
Scheme (Analysis of the consolidated audit summary reports of the 
Voluntary IMO Member State Audit Scheme and Developments with respect 
to IMO Member States Audit Scheme)
--Capacity Building: Strengthening the impact of women in the maritime 
sector
--Global maritime training institutions (World Maritime University, IMO 
International Maritime Law Institute, and Other established 
arrangements)
--Impact Assessment Exercise (Follow-up to the exercise for the period 
2012-2015 and Matters relating to future exercises)
--Development of a new Strategic Framework for the Organization for 
2018-2023
--Application of the Committee's guidelines
--Work programme
--Election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman for 2018
--Amendment of the Rules of Procedure of the Committee
--Any other business
--Consideration of the report of the Committee on its sixty-seventh 
session
One Hundred and Eighteenth Session of Council
--Adoption of the agenda
--Report of the Secretary-General on credentials
--Strategy, planning and reform
--Resource management (Human resource matters, accounts and audits for 
2016 budget year, Report on investments, Report on arrears of 
contributions and advances to the Working Capital Fund, Budget 
considerations for 2017)
--Results-based budget for 2018-2019
--IMO Member State Audit Scheme
--Consideration of the report of the Facilitation Committee
--Consideration of the report of the Legal Committee
--Consideration of the reports of the Maritime Safety Committee
--Consideration of the report of the Technical Cooperation Committee
--Technical Cooperation Fund (Report on activities of the 2016 
programmes & Preliminary biennial allocation to support the ITCP for 
2018-2019)
--World Maritime University (Report of the Board of Governors, Budget, 
Proposed Charter amendments)
--IMO International Maritime Law Institute (Report of the Board of 
Governors, Budget and Proposed amendments to the Charter of the World 
Maritime University)
--Protection of vital shipping lanes
--Principles to be considered in the review of existing requirements 
and the development of new requirements
--Assembly matters (Provisional agenda, Preparations for Assembly, and 
Draft report of the Council to the Assembly)
--External relations (With the U.N. and the specialized agencies, Joint 
Inspection Unit, Relations with intergovernmental organizations, 
Relations with non-governmental organizations, World Maritime Day, 
International Maritime Prize, IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea, 
Report of the Day of the Seafarer, and IMO Maritime Ambassador Scheme)
--Report on the status of the convention and membership of the 
Organization
--Report on the status of conventions and other multilateral 
instruments in respect of which the Organization performs functions
--Place, date and duration of the next two sessions of the Council and 
substantive items for inclusion in the provisional agendas for the next 
two sessions of Council (C/ES.29 and C 119)
    --Supplementary agenda items, if any

    Members of the public may attend this meeting up to the seating 
capacity of the room. To facilitate the building security process, and 
to request reasonable accommodation, those who plan to attend should 
contact the meeting coordinator, LCDR Staci Weist, by email at 
[email protected], by phone at (202) 372-1376, or in writing at 
2703 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE., Stop 7509, Washington DC 20593-
7509 not later than July 5, 2017. Requests made after July 5, 2017 
might not be able to be accommodated.
    Please note that due to security considerations, two valid, 
government issued photo identifications must be presented to gain 
entrance to the Coast Guard Headquarters building. It is recommended 
that attendees arrive to Coast Guard Headquarters no later than 30 
minutes ahead of the scheduled meeting for the security screening 
process. Coast Guard Headquarters is accessible by taxi and public 
transportation. Parking in the vicinity of the building is extremely 
limited. Additional information regarding this and other IMO public 
meetings may be found at: www.uscg.mil/imo.

Jonathan W. Burby,
Coast Guard Liaison Officer, Office of Ocean and Polar Affairs, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-11811 Filed 6-6-17; 8:45 am]
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