A/RES/59/2 Having considered the report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the review of the implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III, 3 Noting with interest that the structure of the agendas of the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and Legal Subcommittee as revised by the Committee at its forty-second session, 4 as well as the action teams established by the Committee at its forty-fifth and forty-seventh sessions, under voluntary leadership by Member States, served as unique mechanisms to revitalize the work of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies and to implement the recommendations of UNISPACE III, 5 Expressing its appreciation to the Member States and organizations that participated in the action teams, in particular to the chairpersons of the action teams, Noting that the establishment of action teams to implement the recommendations of UNISPACE III could be considered by other bodies of the United Nations as a very useful mechanism for implementing results of other major conferences held within the United Nations system, Noting with satisfaction that the implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III contributes to the implementation of the results of global conferences held within the United Nations system, in particular the Millennium Summit, the World Summit on Sustainable Development and the World Summit on the Information Society, 6 1. Takes note with satisfaction of the report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on the review of the implementation of the recommendations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III);3 2. Expresses its appreciation for the work conducted by the Committee and its subsidiary bodies as well as the Office for Outer Space Affairs in the five years since the holding of UNISPACE III to implement the recommendations of the Conference; Notes with appreciation the work of the working group established by the 3. Committee in preparing and finalizing the above-mentioned report; 4. Endorses the Plan of Action as proposed by the Committee in its report; 7 5. Urges all Governments, entities of the United Nations system as well as intergovernmental and non-governmental entities conducting space-related activities to carry out the actions contained in the Plan of Action, mentioned in paragraph 4 above, on a priority basis for the further implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III, in particular its resolution entitled “The Space Millennium: Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development”;1 6. Notes that the Committee will implement some of the actions contained in the Plan of Action through the consideration of items of the agendas of the _______________ 3 See A/59/174. Ibid., paras. 24 and 25. See also Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 20 and corrigendum (A/54/20 and Corr.1), annex I. 5 See A/59/174, paras. 29 and 30. 6 Ibid., sect. IV. 7 Ibid., sect. VI.B. 4 2