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(a) Continue its consideration of review and possible revision of the Principles Relevant to the Use
of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space;6
(b) Continue, through its working group, its consideration of matters relating to the definition and
delimitation of outer space and to 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;
(c) Continue its review of the status of the five international legal instruments governing outer space
and establish a working group to consider the item;
(d) Continue its consideration of other matters, including informal consultations on specific proposals
already made for possible new agenda items for the Legal Subcommittee;
5. Also endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the Legal Subcommittee, at its thirtyeighth and thirty-ninth sessions, should suspend consideration in its working group of the Principles
Relevant to the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space pending the results of the work in the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, without prejudice to the possibility of reconvening its working
group on that item if, in the opinion of the Legal Subcommittee, sufficient progress was made in the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its session in 2000 to warrant the reconvening of the working
group;
6. Notes that, in the context of paragraph 4 (c) above, the Legal Subcommittee would implement
the work plan that it adopted at its thirty-sixth session;7
7. Endorses the recommendations and agreements concerning the organization of work in the Legal
Subcommittee;
8. Notes with satisfaction that, in accordance with paragraph 9 of General Assembly resolution
52/56, the Committee, at its forty-first session, reviewed further its requirements for unedited verbatim
transcripts and agreed to continue the use of those transcripts;
9. Takes note of the agreement reached by the Committee at its fortieth session on the composition
of the bureaux of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies for the second term starting in 2000, in the
context of the implementation of the measures relating to the working methods of those bodies, which
were endorsed by the General Assembly in paragraph 11 of its resolution 52/56;
10. Notes that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses
of Outer Space, at its thirty-fifth session, continued its work as mandated by the General Assembly in its
resolution 52/56;8
6
See resolution 47/68.
7
See A/AC.105/674, annex II.B.
8
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/53/20),
chap. II.C.
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