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11. Notes that, in the context of paragraph 5 (c) above, the Legal
Subcommittee will reconvene its working group to consider the item;
12. Agrees that, in accordance with the measures relating to the working
methods of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies, 11 which were endorsed by the
General Assembly in paragraph 11 of its resolution 52/56 of 10 December 1997, the
Committee should reach consensus agreement at its forty-fifth session, in 2002, on
the composition of the bureaux of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies for the
third term, starting in 2003;
13. Notes that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, at its thirty-eighth
session, continued its work as mandated by the General Assembly in its resolution
55/122; 12
14. Notes with satisfaction that the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at
its thirty-eighth session continued to consider, on a priority basis, the agenda item
on space debris;
15. Endorses the recommendation of the Committee that the Scientific and
Technical Subcommittee, at its thirty-ninth 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 the Third United Nations
Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
(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; 13
(i)
Use of nuclear power sources in outer space;
(ii) Means and mechanisms for strengthening inter-agency cooperation and
increasing the use of space applications and services within and among entities
of the United Nations system;
(iii) Implementation of an integrated, space-based global natural disaster
management system;
(iv) Space debris;
(c)
Consider the following single issues/items for discussion:
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11
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-second Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/52/20),
annex I.
12
Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 20 and corrigendum (A/56/20 and Corr.1), chap. II.C.
13
See A/AC.105/697 and Corr.1, annex III, appendix, for the work plan for item (i); A/AC.105/736,
annex II, paras. 40 and 41, for items (ii) and (iii), respectively; and A/AC.105/761, para. 130, for item (iv).
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