A/RES/76/231
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
30 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 98 (d)
Prevention of an arms race in outer space: reducing
space threats through norms, rules and principles of
responsible behaviours
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 24 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/442, para. 15)]
76/231.
Reducing space threats through norms, rules and principles of
responsible behaviours
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 68/50 of 5 December 2013 and 75/35 of 7 December 2020,
Recalling also its resolution 75/36 of 7 December 2020, in which it requested
the Secretary-General to seek the views of Member States on the further development
and implementation of norms, rules and principles of responsible behaviours and on
the reduction of the risks of misunderstanding and miscalculations with respect to
outer space, and to submit a substantive report, with an annex containing these views,
to the General Assembly at its seventy-sixth session,
Reaffirming the applicability of international law, including the Charter o f the
United Nations, to activities in outer space and the right of all States to explore and
use outer space without discrimination of any kind, on a basis of equality and in
accordance with such law, and emphasizing the importance of full compliance with
such law,
Reaffirming also the Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in
the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial
Bodies, 1 and the obligations for States parties to the Treaty to explore and use outer
space for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, and to be guided by the
principle of cooperation and mutual assistance,
Welcoming the ongoing work by the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space on the implementation of the 21 Guidelines for the Long -term Sustainability
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