International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space

Endorses the report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the work of its 40th session; endorses the UN Programme on Space applications for 1998, as proposed to the Committee by the Expert on Space Applications; agrees that the 3rd UN Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer space (UNISPACE III) shall be convened at the UN Office at Vienna from 19-30 July 1999 as a special session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, open to all States Members of UN; recommends that more attention be paid to all aspects related to the protection and the preservation of the outer space environment, especially those potentially affecting the Earth's environment; urges all States, in particular those with major space capabilities, to contribute actively to the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space as an essential condition for the promotion of international cooperation in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes; emphasizes the need to increase the benefits of space technology and its applications and to contribute to an orderly growth of space activities favourable to sustained economic growth and sustainable development in all countries, particularly in the developing countries; endorses the decision of the Committee to grant permanent observer status to the International Space University.

Adopted without vote, 69th meeting

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Adopted at the 69th plenary meeting, 10 Dec. 1997.