Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Outer Space Activities

A/RES/77/251View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 99cc Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities, published in 2023.

What other versions does this mandate have?

19 versions · 2006–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/44

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/44	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,747	93%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/51	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,648	95%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/52	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,684	83%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/251	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,542	87%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/55	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,495	87%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2023

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2023	A/78/75	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/77/251

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Arms Race Confidence-Building Measures Information Exchange Outer Space Transparency in Armaments

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Stresses the importance of the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence-building Measures in Outer Space Activities, considered by the General Assembly on 5 December 2013;

Encourages Member States to continue to review and implement, to the greatest extent practicable, the proposed transparency and confidence-building measures contained in the report, through the relevant national mechanisms, on a voluntary basis and in a manner consistent with the national interests of Member States;

Also encourages Member States, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the report, with a view to promoting the practical implementation of transparency and confidence-building measures, to hold regular discussions in the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament on the prospects for their implementation;

Requests the relevant entities and organizations of the United Nations system, to which, in accordance with its resolution 68/50, the report was circulated, to assist in effectively implementing the conclusions and recommendations contained therein, as appropriate;

Encourages the relevant entities and organizations of the United Nations system to coordinate, as appropriate, on matters related to the recommendations contained in the report;

Emphasizes the importance of undertaking further work at the Disarmament Commission on preparing recommendations relating to the practical implementation of transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities with the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space;

Welcomes the joint ad hoc meetings of the First and Fourth Committees, held on 22 October 2015, 12 October 2017 and 31 October 2019, on possible challenges to space security and sustainability, convened in accordance with the report and its resolutions 69/38, 71/90, 73/72 and 73/91, and the substantive exchanges of opinions on various aspects of security in outer space that took place during the meetings;

Also welcomes the convening of a joint half-day panel discussion of the Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee) and the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) to address possible challenges to space security and sustainability during the seventy-seventh session of the General Assembly;

Calls upon Member States and the relevant entities and organizations of the United Nations system to support the implementation of the full range of conclusions and recommendations contained in the report;

Recalls the report of the Secretary-General on transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities in the United Nations system, which contains summaries of the submissions received from Member States giving their views on transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities;⁹

⁹A/72/65 and A/72/65/Add.1.

Requests the Secretary-General to seek the views and proposals of Member States about the practical implementation of transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space contained in the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence-building Measures in Outer Space Activities of 2013, and to submit a substantive report, with an annex containing those views, to the General Assembly at its seventy-eighth session, for further discussion by Member States;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-eighth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities”.

56th (resumed) plenary meeting

30 December 2022

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