A/RES/59/2 Committee or its subsidiary bodies and through those action teams that will continue their work as endorsed by the Committee; 7. Requests the Committee to examine the contributions that could be made by space science and technology and their applications to one or more of the issues selected by the Commission on Sustainable Development as a thematic cluster and to provide substantive inputs for consideration by the Commission; Also requests the Committee to include items in the agendas of its future 8. sessions, starting from its forty-ninth session, in 2006, to consider its contributions to the work of those entities that are responsible for convening United Nations conferences and/or for implementing their outcomes; Agrees that a study should be conducted on the possibility of creating an 9. international entity to provide for coordination and the means of realistically optimizing the effectiveness of space-based services for use in disaster management and that the study should be prepared by an ad hoc expert group, with experts to be provided by interested Member States and relevant international organizations, and requests the Committee to review progress in the work of the ad hoc expert group, at its forty-eighth session, in 2005; 8 10. Calls upon Member States to make contributions to the Trust Fund for the United Nations Programme on Space Applications before the end of 2004 for the purpose of preparing the study by the ad hoc expert group mentioned in paragraph 9 above; 11. Invites Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and augmentation providers to consider establishing an international committee on GNSS as proposed in the Plan of Action 9 in order to maximize the benefits of the use and applications of GNSS to support sustainable development; 12. Encourages Member States to provide support to implement the Space Programme of the World Meteorological Organization and its Long-term Strategy, as proposed in the Plan of Action, 10 in order to expand international cooperation in meteorological satellite applications to enhance weather and climate forecasting; 13. Requests the Secretary-General to undertake necessary measures to strengthen the role of the Office for Outer Space Affairs in implementing the recommendations of UNISPACE III, 11 particularly with a view to achieving the following objectives: (a) Strengthening the capacity-building activities of the Office in space law by, inter alia, continuing to organize the series of workshops on space law and developing a model education curriculum for a short-term course on space law; (b) Strengthening the technical advisory services of the Office to support the operational use of space technologies, in particular in response to actions called for in the Plan of Action; _______________ 8 Ibid., paras. 256–261. Ibid., para. 267. 10 Ibid., para. 273. 11 Ibid., paras. 321 and 322. 9 3