A/RES/58/89 16. Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its forty-first session, taking into account the concerns of all countries, in particular those of developing countries: (a) Consider the following items: (i) General exchange of views and introduction to reports submitted on national activities; (ii) United Nations Programme on Space Applications; (iii) Implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III; (iv) Matters relating to remote-sensing of the Earth by satellite, including applications for developing countries and monitoring of the Earth’s environment; (b) Consider the following items in accordance with the work plans adopted by the Committee: 15 (i) Space debris; (ii) Use of nuclear power sources in outer space; (iii) Space-system-based telemedicine; (c) Consider the following single issues/items for discussion: (i) Examination of the physical nature and technical attributes of the geostationary orbit and its utilization and applications, including, inter alia, in the field of space communications, as well as other questions relating to developments in space communications, taking particular account of the needs and interests of developing countries; (ii) Implementation of an integrated, space-based global natural disaster management system; (iii) Solar-terrestrial physics; 17. Notes that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-first session will submit its proposal to the Committee for a draft provisional agenda for the forty-second session of the Subcommittee, in 2005; 18. Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the symposium to strengthen the partnership with industry should be organized during the first week of the forty-first session of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and should address small satellite applications in agriculture, health and human security; 19. Agrees that, in the context of paragraphs 16 (a) (ii) and (iii) and 17 above, the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-first session should reconvene the Working Group of the Whole; 20. Also agrees that, in the context of paragraph 16 (b) (i) above, the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its forty-first session, could establish a working group to consider comments from member States of the Committee on the proposals on debris mitigation presented by the Inter-Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee to the Subcommittee at its fortieth session; 16 _______________ 15 See A/AC.105/761, para. 130, for item (i); A/AC.105/804, annex III, for item (ii); and Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), para. 138, for item (iii). 16 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), para. 126. 5