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16. Notes that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its thirty-eighth
session will submit its proposal to the Committee for a draft provisional agenda for
the thirty-ninth session of the Subcommittee, in 2002;
17. Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the Committee on
Space Research and the International Astronautical Federation, in liaison with
Member States, be invited to arrange a symposium on the theme “Terrestrial hazards
from outer space objects and phenomena”, with as wide a participation as possible,
to be held during the first week of the thirty-eighth session of the Scientific and
Technical Subcommittee;
18. Notes with satisfaction that an industry symposium, with the participation
of Member States, on emerging applications of global navigation satellite systems in
improving the productivity of national and regional infrastructure will be organized
during the thirty-eighth session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee;
19. Agrees that, in the context of paragraphs 15 (a) (ii) and 16 above, the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its thirty-eighth session should reconvene
its Working Group of the Whole and that the Subcommittee should consider, through
the Working Group of the Whole, the implementation of the recommendations of
UNISPACE III;
20. Also agrees that, in the context of paragraph 15 (b) (i) above, the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its thirty-eighth session should reconvene
its Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space;
21. Encourages all the organs, organizations and programmes of the United
Nations system to contribute to the work of the Scientific and Technical
Subcommittee in the context of paragraph 15 (b) (ii) above by, inter alia, providing
the Subcommittee with appropriate information in response to the list of questions
approved by the Committee at its forty-third session; 13
22. Agrees that, in the context of paragraph 15 (c) (i) above, the Scientific
and Technical Subcommittee at its thirty-eighth session should conduct its work in
accordance with the agreement of the Committee at its forty-third session;14
23. Endorses the United Nations Programme on Space Applications for 2001,
as proposed to the Committee by the United Nations Expert on Space
Applications; 15
24. 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, began their first educational
activities in April 2000, that the Centre for Space Science and Technology
Education in Asia and the Pacific continued its education programme in 2000 and
that progress has been achieved in furthering the goals of the Network of Space
Science and Technology Education and Research Institutions for Central, Eastern
and South-Eastern Europe and in establishing regional centres for space science and
technology education in the other regions;
13
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/55/20),
para. 113.
14
Ibid., para. 119.
15
See A/AC.105/730, sect. II.
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