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Endorses the recommendations and agreements concerning the organization of work in the Legal Subcommittee; considers that it is particularly urgent to implement the following recommedations: (a) all countries should have the opportunity to use the techniques resulting from medical studies in space; (b) data banks at the national and regional levels should be strengthened and expanded and an international space infromation service should be established to function as a centre of coordination; (c) UN should support the creation of adequate training centres at the regional level, linked, whenever possible, to institutions implementing space programmes; (d) UN should organize a fellowship programme through which selected graduates or postgraduates from developing countries should get in-depth, long-term exposure to space technology or application; endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the Scientific and Technical Subcommitee should reconvene, at its 31st session, the Working Group of the Whole to Evaluate the Implementation of the Recommendations of the 2nd UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; decides that, during the 31st session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, the Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space should be reconvened; considers that it is essential that Member States pay more attention to the problem of collisions of space objects, including nuclear power sources, with space debris.

Adopted without vote, 75th meeting

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Adopted at the 75th plenary meeting, 10 Dec. 1993.