Question of the Peaceful Use of Outer Space

A/RES/1348(XIII)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1959.

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6 subjects

Establishment Information Dissemination Outer Space Peaceful Coexistence Space Research Terms of Reference

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Establishes an ad hoe Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space composed of the representatives of Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Sweden, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, and requests it to report to the General Assembly at its fourteenth session on the following:

The activities and resources of the United Nations, of its specialized agencies and of other international bodies relating ·to the peaceful uses of outer space;

( b) The area of international co-operation and programmes in the peaceful uses of outer space which could appropriately be undertaken under United Nations auspices to the benefit of States irrespective of the state of their economic or scientific development, taking into account the following proposals, inter alia:

Continuation on a permanent basis of the outer space research now being carried on within the framework of the International Geophysical Year; General Auembly-Thirteenth Session

Organization of the mutual exchange and dissemination of information on outer space research;

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Co-ordination of national research programmes for the study of outer space, and the rendering of all possible assistance and help towards their realization ;

( c) The future organizational arrangements to facilitate international co-operation in this field within the framework of the United Nations;

The nature of legal problems which may arise in the carrying out of programmes to explore outer space;

Requests the Secretary-General to render appropriate assistance to the above-named Committee and to recommend any other steps that might be taken within the existing United Nations framework to encourage the fullest international co-operation for the peaceful uses of outer space.

13 December 1958.

• This resolution was submitted directly in plenary meeting and adopted by the General Assembly after consideration of the report of the First Committee. For the text of the report, .rion, Annexes, agenda item 68, document A/4029.

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