A/RES/53/45 Page 6 22. Endorses the recommendations of the Preparatory Committee at its 1998 session, concerning, in particular, the structure of the draft report and the provisional rules of procedure of UNISPACE III, as contained in its report,12 and requests the Preparatory and Advisory Committees and the executive secretariat to carry out their tasks in accordance with those recommendations; 23. Notes with satisfaction the holding of the preparatory regional conference at Kuala Lumpur from 18 to 22 May 1998 and its recommendations, the preparatory regional conference at Concepción, Chile, from 12 to 16 October 1998 and the Concepción Declaration of 16 October 199813 and the preparatory regional conference at Rabat from 26 to 30 October 1998, and also notes with satisfaction that a preparatory regional conference will be held in Romania from 25 to 29 January 1999; 24. Encourages all Member States, organizations within the United Nations system and other international organizations with space activities, as well as space-related industries and national organizations, invited through their Governments, to contribute actively to achieving the objectives of UNISPACE III; 25. Invites Member States, space agencies and space-related international and national organizations to support the preparations for UNISPACE III by providing the executive secretariat with junior or senior experts, by co-sponsoring activities related to UNISPACE III and by providing other voluntary contributions; 26. Notes with satisfaction that in order to service UNISPACE III, to the extent feasible, within existing resources, the savings realized by the Committee and its subsidiary bodies in 1998 and 1999 in conference-servicing resources by shortening, as an exception, their regular annual sessions will be utilized; 27. Agrees that pre-Conference consultations by all States Members of the United Nations should be convened on 18 July 1999 at the site of UNISPACE III, within existing resources, and requests the Preparatory Committee to report during the consultations on the work it has conducted; 28. Requests UNISPACE III to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session; 29. Agrees that in view of the abbreviated schedule of work of the Committee at its forty-second session and the preparatory work to be conducted for UNISPACE III, the Committee should suspend its work on the following items for one year, to be resumed at its forty-third session: (a) Consideration, as a matter of priority, of ways and means of maintaining outer space for peaceful purposes; (b) Consideration of the item entitled “Spin-off benefits of space technology: review of current status”; 12 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/53/20), chap. II.B. 13 A/C.4/53/8, annex. /...