A/RES/70/53
United Nations
Distr.: General
11 December 2015
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda item 97 (w)
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 December 2015
[on the report of the First Committee (A/70/460)]
70/53.
Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer
space activities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 60/66 of 8 December 2005, 61/75 of 6 December
2006, 62/43 of 5 December 2007, 63/68 of 2 December 2008, 64/49 of 2 December
2009, 65/68 of 8 December 2010, 68/50 of 5 December 2013 and 69/38 of
2 December 2014, as well as its decision 66/517 of 2 December 2011,
Recalling also the report of the Secretary-General of 15 October 1993 to the
General Assembly at its forty-eighth session, the annex to which contains the study
by governmental experts on the application of confidence-building measures in
outer space,1
Reaffirming the right of all countries to explore and use outer space in
accordance with international law,
Reaffirming also that preventing an arms race in outer space is in the interest
of maintaining international peace and security and is an essential condition for the
promotion and strengthening of international cooperation in the exploration and use
of outer space for peaceful purposes,
Recalling, in this context, its resolutions 45/55 B of 4 December 1990 and
48/74 B of 16 December 1993, in which, inter alia, the General Assembly
recognized the need for increased transparency and confirmed the importance of
confidence-building measures as a means of reinforcing the objective of preventing
an arms race in outer space,
Noting the constructive debates that the Conference on Disarmament has held
on this subject and the views expressed by Member States,
Noting also the introduction by China and the Russian Federation at the
Conference on Disarmament of the draft treaty on prevention of the placement of
weapons in outer space and of the threat or use of force against outer space objects,2
and the submission of its updated version3 in 2014,
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1
A/48/305 and Corr.1.
See CD/1839.
3
See CD/1985.
2
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