United Nations A/RES/60/66 General Assembly Distr.: General 6 January 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 97 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005 [on the report of the First Committee (A/60/463)] 60/66. Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities The General Assembly, Reaffirming that the prevention of an arms race in outer space would avert a grave danger to international peace and security, Conscious that further measures should be examined in the search for agreements to prevent an arms race in outer space, including the weaponization of outer space, Recalling, in this context, its previous resolutions which, inter alia, emphasize the need for increased transparency and confirm the importance of confidencebuilding measures as a conducive means of ensuring the attainment of the objective of the prevention of an arms race in outer space, Recalling also the report of the Secretary-General to its forty-eighth session, the annex to which contains the study by governmental experts on the application of confidence-building measures in outer space, 1 1. Invites all Member States to inform the Secretary-General before its sixty-first session of their views on the advisability of further developing international outer space transparency and confidence-building measures in the interest of maintaining international peace and security and promoting international cooperation and the prevention of an arms race in outer space; Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session an 2. item entitled “Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities”. 61st plenary meeting 8 December 2005 _______________ 1 05-49156 A/48/305 and Corr.1.