International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Endorses the report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the work of its 49th session; endorses the UN Programme on Space Applications for 2007, as proposed to the Committee by the Expert on Space Applications and endorsed by the Committee; requests the Committee to continue to consider, as a matter of priority, ways and means of maintaining outer space for peaceful purposes and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its 62nd session; urges all Member States to contribute to the Trust Fund for the UN Programme on Space Applications to enhance the capacity of the Office for Outer Space Affairs to provide technical and legal advisory services and initiate pilot projects in accordance with the Plan of Action of the Committee; requests the Committee to continue to consider, at its 50th session, its agenda item entitled "Spin-off benefits of space technology: review of current status"; also requests the Committee, in view of the importance of space and education, to continue to consider, at its 50th session, under its agenda item entitled "Space and society", the special theme for the focus of discussions for the period 2004-2006 "Space and education", in accordance with the workplan adopted by the Committee; agrees that the Committee should continue to consider, at its 50th session, its agenda item entitled "Space and water"; endorses the composition of the bureaux of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies for the period 2008-2009 and agrees that the Committee and its Subcommittees should elect their officers at their respective sessions in 2008 in accordance with that composition.

Adopted without vote, 79th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.