5. Requests the Office for Outer Space Affairs

For example, in response to the increasing commercialization of outer space, the Office for Outer Space Affairs should continue its yearly workshops on space law.

The Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs opened the Meeting.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs briefed the Meeting on its website on the coordination of outer space activities within the United Nations system (www.uncosa.unvienna.org).

The Office for Outer Space Affairs invites other United Nations entities to join this effort.

16. Further agrees that the programme should report to and receive guidance from the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space through the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs will brief the Committee on the proposed activities for 2006.

The work of the ad hoc expert group was supported by the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Essentially, it presents our tentative definitions of terms such as outer space, outer space object and weapons in outer space.

The telemedicine project is being developed in cooperation with the Office for Outer Space Affairs, WHO, the Indian Space Research Organization and other partners.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs has been providing training courses on satellite aided search and rescue since 1999.

Member States should be encouraged and supported by their partners or even by the Office for Outer Space Affairs to draft national legislation on space activity.

It was also recommended that the Office for Outer Space Affairs continue to maintain and expand the existing Global Network for Space Technology and Disaster Management.

Many questions have been raised, including a possible distinction between weaponization and militarization of outer space, and definitions of technical terms, such as  outer space , space weapon , space object and peaceful use of outer space .

6. Recommends that States and international intergovernmental organizations should report to the Office for Outer Space Affairs on new developments relating to their practice in registering space objects.

The Committee noted with satisfaction that the Secretariat had continued to enhance the International Space Information Service and the website of the Office for Outer Space Affairs (www.unoosa.org).

Peaceful uses of outer space

The United Nations system was able to request data from it through the Office for Outer Space Affairs, which cooperated with the Charter.

The participants expressed their appreciation to the Office for Outer Space Affairs for hosting the twenty fifth session of the Inter Agency Meeting.

The view was expressed that outer space must be protected from the threat posed by weapons in outer space.

In that regard, the Meeting agreed that the Office for Outer Space Affairs should clarify the matter with the executive secretariat of the Charter.

Space warfare is combat that takes place in outer space, i.e.

Russia has considerable space potential and experience in outer space exploration.

This multilateral legal regime for outer space, however, bans only the introduction of weapons of mass destruction in outer space.

The Subcommittee noted with appreciation that the Directory of Education Opportunities in Space Law had been updated and would be made available on the website of the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Also at the 10th meeting, the Chairman of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the expert on telemedicine from Virginia Commonwealth University, and the Director of the Office of Outer Space Affairs made presentations (see A C.4 60 SR.10).

Both are aimed at a single goal that of promoting the security of outer space, strengthening mutual trust and cooperation among States in outer space, and working to prevent an arms race in outer space.

The Meeting invited the entities of the United Nations system to contribute to the unified list of space related training events for 2005, which is maintained by the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

A representative of the Office for Outer Space Affairs briefed the Meeting on the Charter on Cooperation to Achieve the Coordinated Use of Space Facilities in the Event of Natural or Technological Disasters (International Charter Space and Major Disasters ).

Otherwise, the right to the peaceful use of outer space and the safety of outer space assets will be put in jeopardy.

There have recently been worrying developments relating to outer space, making efforts to halt the weaponization of outer space the more pressing.

The Subcommittee noted with appreciation the efforts of the Office for Outer Space Affairs to build capacity in space law and commended its work on the Directory of Education Opportunities in Space Law, the publication of the Space Law Update and the organization of its workshops on space law.

The Meeting agreed that the Office for Outer Space Affairs should explore the possibility of making the brochure available in the six official United Nations languages.

IISL will prepare, with the assistance of the Office for Outer Space Affairs, an update of its bibliography of IISL proceedings, covering the period 1996 2003.

The fundamental legal instrument governing outer space activities, the OST, has loopholes with regards to the prevention of outer space weaponization, and no international consensus has been reached on how to address the serious challenges facing outer space.

Letter dated 17 January 2005 sent by the secretariat of the Inter Agency Space Debris Coordination Committee, on behalf of its Chairman, to the Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the Secretariat

a. The definition and delimitation of outer space

a. The definition and delimitation of outer space

Use of nuclear power sources in outer space

Prevention of an arms race in outer space

Outer space is the common heritage of mankind.

47th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space

48th Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space

Discussion on how to preserve security in outer space and prevent an arms race in outer space put forward three options to choose from

Key partners should also include the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the Security Council and ILO.