116. Reiterates its support for the International Coral Reef Initiative, takes note of the International Coral Reef Initiative General Meeting, held in Tokyo from 22 to 24 April 2007, and the upcoming eleventh International Coral Reef Symposium, to be held in Fort Lauderdale, United States of America, in July 2008, supports the work under the Jakarta Mandate on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity and the elaborated programme of work on marine and coastal biological diversity related to coral reefs, and notes that the International Coral Reef Initiative is sponsoring the International Year of the Reef 2008;
116. 重申支持国际珊瑚礁倡议，注意到2007年4月22日至24日在东京举行的国际珊瑚礁倡议大会和2008年7将在美利坚合众国劳德代尔堡举行的第十一次国际珊瑚礁专题讨论会，支持按照《关于海洋和沿海生物多样性的雅加达任务规定》和与珊瑚礁有关的海洋和沿海生物多样性扩展工作计划开展的工作，并注意到国际珊瑚礁倡议正在主办2008年国际海礁年；