51. Also welcomes the initiation of a process within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to develop a legally binding instrument on minimum standards for port State measures, based on the Model Scheme on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, notes the Organization's Expert Consultation on Port State Measures, held in Washington, D.C., from 4 to 8 September 2007, and encourages all relevant States to participate in the intergovernmental Technical Consultation, to be held in Rome from 23 to 28 June 2008, so that the finalized instrument may be presented to the Committee on Fisheries at its twenty-eighth session, in 2009;
51. 又欣见各国在联合国粮食及农业组织内着手开展工作，根据《打击非法、未报告和无管制捕捞活动港口国措施示范办法》和《预防、阻止和消除非法、未报告和无管制的捕捞活动国际行动计划》，制订一项具有法律约束力的港口国措施最低标准文书，注意到粮农组织2007年9月4日至8日在华盛顿特区举行的关于港口国措施的技术协商，鼓励所有相关国家参加预定2008年6月23日至28日在罗马举行的政府间专家协商，以便在2009年将文书最后文本提交给渔业委员会第二十八届会议；