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SECTION 3D. OUTER SPACE AFFAIRS

Organizational unit Office for Outer Space Affairs

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III. ROLE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE PEACEFUL USES OF OUTER SPACE AND THE OFFICE FOR OUTER SPACE AFFAIRS

5. Requests the Office for Outer Space Affairs

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Outer space affairs, Office of Legal Affairs,

Statement by the Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs

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

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Servicint of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is the responsibility of the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs would be responsible for the implementation of this programme.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs is responsible for the substantive servicing of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and its Scientific and Technical Subcommittee.

Since the move of the Office for Outer Space Affairs to Vienna, the Austrian Space Agency is coordinating these events.

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.

The work of the Office for Outer Space Affairs in improving disaster management was presented.

Representatives of the COSPAS SARSAT secretariat and the Office for Outer Space Affairs participated in the training course.

17. The Office for Outer Space Affairs is the focus of space expertise within the United Nations Secretariat.

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.

This is the first session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to take place after the move of the Office of Outer Space Affairs from New York to Vienna.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs submitted proposals for the programme of the conference, which were adopted.

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The Chairman I now call on the Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

We are waiting for the official announcement by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of its final decision.

I wish also to convey our appreciation to the Director of the Office for Outer Space Affairs, Mr. Jasentuliyana.

The responsibility for implementation of programme 8, Peaceful uses of outer space, was assigned to the Office for Outer Space Affairs, which was transferred to the United Nations Office at Vienna.

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

It is in this context that the present report has been prepared, with the assistance of the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

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.

Because those plans are not yet developed, the present report will focus on the activities of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

As regards activities related to the peaceful uses of outer space, the Office for Outer Space Affairs now reports to the Director General of the United Nations Office at Vienna.

All the regional centres have entered into an affiliation agreement with the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the Secretariat.

Ms. Skoog (Sweden) This is the first time the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has met in Vienna since the transfer of the Office for Outer Space Affairs.

Organized by the Office for Outer Space Affairs of the Secretariat and the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL), the Seminar was co sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and hosted by ASAL.

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.

The monitoring of gorilla habitats in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being carried out in cooperation with ESA, while awareness raising workshops for site managers are being organized in Latin America in cooperation with the National Commission on Space Activities of Argentina.

The Office for Outer Space Affairs will continue to organize workshops on space law within the framework of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications.