A/RES/58/89 44. Requests the Committee to continue to consider, at its forty-seventh session, its agenda item entitled “Spin-off benefits of space technology: review of current status”; 45. Also requests the Committee to continue to consider, at its forty-seventh session, its agenda item entitled “Space and society”, and agrees that a special theme for the focus of discussions for the period 2004-2006 should be “Space and education”, in accordance with the work plan adopted by the Committee; 22 46. Agrees that a new item entitled “Space and water” should be included in the agenda of the Committee at its forty-seventh session, and urges entities of the United Nations system and invites other intergovernmental entities dealing with issues relating to the use and management of water resources as well as space agencies to contribute to the work of the Committee in this field; 47. Welcomes the continued interest of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya in becoming a member of the Committee, and, to this end, requests that constructive consultations be conducted as soon as possible within the Committee as well as among regional groups, taking into account the principle of equitable geographical distribution, with a view to reaching a positive and final decision on the membership of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya at the fifty-ninth session of the General Assembly; 48. Requests the Committee to consider ways to improve participation by member States and entities with observer status in its work, with a view to agreeing on specific recommendations in that regard at its forty-eighth session; 49. Endorses the decision of the Committee to grant permanent observer status to the Regional Centre for Remote Sensing of the North African States and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; 50. Invites the Committee to expand the scope of international cooperation relating to the social, economic, ethical and human dimension in space science and technology applications; 51. Requests entities of the United Nations system and other international organizations to continue and, where appropriate, to enhance their cooperation with the Committee and to provide it with reports on the issues dealt with in the work of the Committee and its subsidiary bodies; 52. Requests the Committee to consider and identify new mechanisms of international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space to strengthen multilateralism, in accordance with the preamble to the present resolution, and to submit a report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session, including its views on which subjects should be studied in the future. 72nd plenary meeting 9 December 2003 _______________ 22 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 20 (A/58/20), para. 239. 9