Continuity of the Work of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and Its Subsidiary Bodies

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 51 International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space, published in 2020.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Outer Space Space Exploration Space Technology

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Endorses the decisions and actions by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Legal Subcommittee taken by written procedure;

Agrees that the Committee, at its sixty-fourth session, in 2021, should consider the substantive items and convene the working group recommended by the Committee,² including holding intersessional consultations as necessary, taking into account the concerns of all countries, in particular those of developing countries;

²Ibid., paras. 32 and 37.

Also agrees that the Legal Subcommittee, at its sixtieth session, in 2021, should consider the substantive items and reconvene the working groups recommended by the Committee,³ including holding intersessional consultations as necessary, taking into account the concerns of all countries, in particular those of developing countries;

³Ibid., paras. 28–29; see also para. 11.

Notes that, at its fifty-seventh session, in 2020, the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee continued its work,⁴ as mandated by the General Assembly in its resolution 74/82;

⁴Ibid., para. 18; see also A/AC.105/1224.

Agrees that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its fifty-eighth session, in 2021, should consider the substantive items and reconvene the working groups recommended by the Committee,⁵ including holding intersessional consultations as necessary, taking into account the concerns of all countries, in particular those of developing countries;

⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/75/20), paras. 22–23; see also A/AC.105/1224.

Notes that, in accordance with the agreement reached by the Committee at its forty-sixth session on the measures relating to the future composition of the bureaux of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies,⁶ on the basis of the measures relating to the working methods of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies,⁷ the Eastern European States have nominated their candidate for the office of Second Vice-Chair/Rapporteur of the Committee for the period 2022–2023;⁸

⁶Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), annex II, paras. 5–9.

⁷Ibid., Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/52/20), annex I; and ibid., Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), annex II, appendix III.

⁸Ibid., Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/75/20), para. 35.

Urges the African States, the Asia-Pacific States, the Latin American and Caribbean States and the Western European and other States to nominate their candidates for the offices of Chair of the Legal Subcommittee, Chair of the Committee, Chair of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and First Vice-Chair of the Committee, respectively, for the period 2022–2023, before the next session of the Committee, to be held in 2021.⁹

⁹Ibid., para. 36.

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