A/RES/58/89
21. Further agrees that, in the context of paragraph 16 (b) (ii) above, the
Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-first session should reconvene its
Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space;
22. Endorses the United Nations Programme on Space Applications for 2004,
as proposed to the Committee by the Expert on Space Applications; 17
23. Notes with satisfaction that, in accordance with paragraph 30 of General
Assembly resolution 50/27 of 6 December 1995, the African regional centres for
space science and technology education, in the French language and in the English
language, located in Morocco and Nigeria, respectively, and the Centre for Space
Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific continued their education
programmes in 2003, that the Regional Centre for Space Science and Technology
Education for Latin America and the Caribbean became affiliated to the United
Nations and began its education programme, and that the United Nations
Programme on Space Applications is providing technical support to the Government
of Jordan for the establishment of the regional centre for space science and
technology education for Western Asia;
24. Also notes with satisfaction the success of the Fourth Space Conference
of the Americas, held at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, from 14 to 17 May 2002,
which adopted the Declaration of Cartagena de Indias and the Plan of Action, 18 and
notes the desire of Member States in the Latin American and Caribbean region to
institutionalize the Space Conference of the Americas;
25. Welcomes the memorandum of understanding between the Office for
Outer Space Affairs of the Secretariat and the Pro Tempore Secretariat of the Fourth
Space Conference of the Americas, under which the parties demonstrated their
intention to collaborate in promoting and implementing joint activities, and invites
the Pro Tempore Secretariat to inform the Committee of the work accomplished;
26. Urges all Governments, entities of the United Nations system as well as
intergovernmental and non-governmental entities conducting space-related activities
to take the necessary action for the effective implementation of the
recommendations of UNISPACE III, in particular its resolution entitled “The Space
Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development”,2 bearing in
mind the need to promote the use of space technology towards implementing the
United Nations Millennium Declaration;3
27. Agrees that, in accordance with paragraph 30 of General Assembly
resolution 55/122 of 8 December 2000, the Committee should include in the agenda
of its forty-seventh session an item on the implementation of the recommendations
of UNISPACE III;
28. Notes with satisfaction the work conducted by the twelve action teams
that the Committee had established at its forty-fourth and forty-sixth sessions under
the voluntary leadership of Member States to implement the recommendations of
UNISPACE III, 19 and urges Member States to provide full support to the action
teams in conducting their work;
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17
See A/AC.105/790 and Corr.1, sects. II-IV.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/57/20), annex II.
19
Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 20 and corrigendum (A/56/20 and Corr.1), paras. 50 and 55;
ibid., Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/57/20), paras. 42 and 43; and ibid., Fifty-eighth Session,
Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), para. 62.
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