A/RES/59/2
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
3 December 2004
Fifty-ninth session
Agenda item 23
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 October 2004
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/59/L.4 and Add.1)]
59/2.
Review of the implementation of the recommendations of
the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration
and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 54/68 of 6 December 1999, 55/122 of 8 December
2000, 56/51 of 10 December 2001, 57/116 of 11 December 2002 and 58/90 of
9 December 2003, concerning the review and appraisal by the General Assembly at
its fifty-ninth session of the implementation of the recommendations of the Third
United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
(UNISPACE III), held in Vienna from 19 to 30 July 1999, 1
Reaffirming the importance of international cooperation in increasing benefits
of the exploration and use of outer space to enhance human development,
Stressing the importance of implementing the resolution adopted by
UNISPACE III entitled “The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and
Human Development”,1 which contains a strategy to address global challenges
through the use of space science and technology and their applications,
Recalling the unique organizational aspects of UNISPACE III, which allowed
for active contributions by non-governmental organizations, industry and youth to
the outcome of UNISPACE III while organizing the Conference within existing
resources, 2
Recognizing that responsibility for implementing the recommendations of
UNISPACE III rests with Member States, the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the
Secretariat, under the guidance of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space and its subsidiary bodies, intergovernmental organizations for multilateral
cooperation and other entities with space-related activities, including nongovernmental entities, and the young generation,
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1
See Report of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer
Space, Vienna, 19–30 July 1999 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.I.3), chap. I, resolution 1.
2
See A/C.4/54/9.
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