Endorses the report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the work of its 51st session (A/63/20); endorses the agreement of the Committee, at its 51st session, that the topic for the 2009 symposium, to be organized by the International Astronautical Federation, would be "The role of Earth observation satellites in promoting understanding of and addressing climate change concerns" and that the symposium should be held during the first week of the 46th session of the Subcommittee; agrees that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its 46th session, should reconvene the Working Group of the Whole; also agrees that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its 46th session, should reconvene its Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space and that the Working Group should continue its work on the topics described in the multi-year workplan as agreed by the Subcommittee at its 44th session and the Committee at its 50th session; endorses the UN Programme on Space Applications for 2009, as proposed to the Committee by the Expert on Space Applications and endorsed by the Committee; endorses the decision of the Committee to grant permanent observer status to the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere, the European Telecommunications Satellite Organization, the International Institute of Space Law, the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water and the Secure World Foundation.

Adopted without vote, 64th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.