A/RES/57/116 (a) Consider the following as regular agenda items: (i) General exchange of views; (ii) Status and application of the five United Nations treaties on outer space; (iii) Information on the activities of international organizations relating to space law; (iv) Matters relating to: a. The definition and delimitation of outer space; b. The character and utilization of the geostationary orbit, including consideration of ways and means to ensure the rational and equitable use of the geostationary orbit without prejudice to the role of the International Telecommunication Union; (b) Consider the following single issues/items for discussion: (i) Review and possible revision of the Principles Relevant to the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space; 9 (ii) Examination of the preliminary draft protocol on matters specific to space assets to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment, opened for signature at Cape Town, South Africa, on 16 November 2001: a. Considerations relating to the possibility of the United Nations serving as supervisory authority under the preliminary draft protocol; b. Considerations relating to the relationship between the terms of the preliminary draft protocol and the rights and obligations of States under the legal regime applicable to outer space; 6. Notes that the Legal Subcommittee, at its forty-second session, will submit its proposals to the Committee for new items to be considered by the Subcommittee at its forty-third session, in 2004; 7. Notes also that, in the context of paragraph 5 (a) (ii) above, the Legal Subcommittee will reconvene its Working Group, which will meet for three years, from 2002 to 2004, with the terms of reference as agreed upon by the Legal Subcommittee; 10 8. Notes further that, in the context of paragraph 5 (a) (iii) above, the group of experts designated by interested Member States to identify which aspects of the report on the ethics of space policy of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization might need to be studied by the Committee and to draft a report, in consultation with other international organizations and in close liaison with the World Commission, will submit its report to the Legal Subcommittee at its forty-second session; 9. Notes that, in the context of paragraph 5 (a) (iv) above, the Legal Subcommittee will reconvene its working group on the item only to consider matters relating to the definition and delimitation of outer space; _______________ 9 See resolution 47/68. See A/AC.105/763 and Corr.1, para. 118, and A/AC.105/787, para. 138. 10 3