Resolution No. 58/21 approving, for accession of the Republic of Angola, the Convention on the International Hydrographic Organization.

This Resolution approves, for accession of the Republic of Angola, the Convention on the International Hydrographic Organization, signed in Monaco, on the 3rd of May 1967, whose purpose is to promote the use of hydrography for the safety of navigation and for any other maritime activity and to increase the level of global awareness of the importance of hydrography, improving the availability and quality of hydrographic data, information, products and services worldwide, as well as facilitating access to them. The Organization shall have a consultative and purely technical nature. It shall be the object of the Organization to bring about: (a) The co-ordination of the activities of national hydrographic offices; (b) The greatest possible uniformity in nautical charts and documents; (c) The adoption of reliable and efficient methods of carrying out and exploiting hydrographic surveys; (d) The development of the sciences in the field of hydrography and the techniques employed in descriptive oceanography.