Recommendations on enhancing the practice of States and international intergovernmental organizations in registering space objects : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Recommends that: (a) States that have not yet ratified or acceded to the Registration Convention should become parties; (b) International intergovernmental organizations conducting space activities that have not yet declared their acceptance of the rights and obligations under the Registration Convention should do so; recommends that consideration should be given to achieving uniformity in the type of information to be provided to the Secretary-General on the registration of space objects; requests the Office for Outer Space Affairs to make available to all States and international intergovernmental organizations a model registration form reflecting the information to be provided to the Office for Outer Space Affairs, to assist them in their submission of registration information; to make public, through its website, the contact details of the focal points; to establish web links on its website to the appropriate registries that are available on the Internet; recommends that States and international intergovernmental organizations should report to the Office for Outer Space Affairs on new developments relating to their practice in registering space objects.

Adopted without vote, 75th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 62nd sess., Suppl. no. 49.