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23. Notes with satisfaction that, in accordance with paragraph 30 of General
Assembly resolution 50/27 of 6 December 1995, the African regional centres for
space science and technology education, in the French language and in the English
language, located in Morocco and Nigeria, respectively, and the Centre for Space
Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific continued their education
programmes in 2002 and that progress has been achieved in furthering the goals of
the Network of Space Science and Technology Education and Research Institutions
of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and in establishing the regional
centres for space science and technology education in Latin America and the
Caribbean, as a result of the substantive progress achieved during the meetings held
in Mexico and Brazil in 2002, as well as in Western Asia;
24. Recognizes the agreement reached at the Space Conferences of the
Americas for the Latin American countries as a mechanism to promote cooperation
and coordination in space activities in the region, notes with satisfaction the success
of the Fourth Space Conference of the Americas, held at Cartagena de Indias,
Colombia, from 14 to 17 May 2002, which adopted the Declaration of Cartagena de
Indias and the Plan of Action, 16 and encourages other regions to convene
periodically regional conferences with a view to achieving convergence of positions
on issues of common concern in the field of the peaceful uses of outer space among
States Members of the United Nations;
25. Urges all Governments, entities of the United Nations system and
intergovernmental and non-governmental entities conducting space-related activities
to take the necessary action for the effective implementation of the
recommendations of UNISPACE III, in particular its resolution entitled “The Space
Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development”, 2 and requests
the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session
on the implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III;
26. Notes with satisfaction the work conducted by the eleven action teams
that the Committee had established at its forty-fourth session under the voluntary
leadership of Member States to implement the recommendations of UNISPACE III,
and agrees that Member States should provide full support to the action teams in
conducting their work; 17
27. Agrees that, in accordance with paragraph 30 of General Assembly
resolution 55/122 of 8 December 2000, the Committee should include in the
agendas of its forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions an item on the implementation
of the recommendations of UNISPACE III;
28. Notes with satisfaction that the Committee has started to prepare a report
under the agenda item on the implementation of the recommendations of
UNISPACE III for submission to the General Assembly, so that the Assembly may
review and appraise, at its fifty-ninth session, in 2004, in accordance with
paragraph 16 of its resolution 54/68, the implementation of the outcome of
UNISPACE III and consider further actions and initiatives, and agrees that, in this
context, the Working Group established by the Committee to prepare the abovementioned report should be reconvened at the forty-sixth session of the Committee;
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Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/57/20), annex II.
Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 20 and corrigendum (A/56/20 and Corr.1), paras. 50 and 55;
and ibid., Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/57/20), paras. 42 and 43.
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