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External sources (not reviewed)

records, which would consist of digital sound files supplemented, where available, with uploaded reference materials such as written statements and/or an English transcript of the meeting.

Space with a vi ew to transforming the Guidelines into a set of principles to be adopted by the General Assembly”, for inclusion on the agenda of the Subcommittee, would provide an opportunity for the elaboration of an international instrument on space debris in a satisfa ctory form for the present and near future, and that such work would require close cooperation with the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee.

and its expert groups, in particular the expert group on regulatory regimes and guidance for actors in the space arena (expert group D), was needed so as to build synergies for the benefit of the Committee as a whole.

Assembly and other international forums.

keep the Conference on Disarmament informed of the progress of bilateral and multilateral negotiations on the matter (resolution 66/27).

such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission, the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC), in the area of disaster risk management and risk reduction.

during the fifty-fifth and fifty-sixth sessions of the Committee (A/AC.105/1001, annex IV, paras. 16 and 17).

measures pursuant to resolutions 61/75, 62/43, 63/68 and 64/49 (resolution 64/49).

which was signed in Madrid on 9 February 2006 and entered into force on 17 March 2010; the Scientific and Technical Cooperation Agreement with the United States of America of 28 January 2003, which provides for the establishment of a space-tracking station on Spanish territory; and the Space Cooperation Agreement, signed on 11 July 1991 with the United States, which provides for the landing of the United States space shuttle at certain Spanish airports in cases of emergency.

of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, the United Nations Information Service, the Office of Internal Oversight Services and the United Nations Register of Damage Caused by the Construction of the Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

and consolidated the Space Applications Section and the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) programme, in line with a recommendation of OIOS (A/66/6, (Sect. 6), para. 6.22).

at its sixty-fifth session (resolution 64/86).

the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee, in accordance with the multi-year workplan and objectives adopted by the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee at its forty-seventh session (A/AC.105/958, annex II, paras. 7 and 8).

in General Assembly resolution 65/68 (see paras. II.51 and II.52 below); as well as to subprogramme 5, Regional disarmament, resulting from the delayed impact of four posts (2 P-3 and 2 Local level) approved in 2010-2011, the inclusion of the core operational requirements for the Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific and the Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, and additional security requirements for the three regional centres (see para. II.54 below).

the practical use of space applications in support of regional socio-economic programmes, to promote the development of space legislation, and to strengthen education and training programmes in space science and technology.

relevant intergovernmental organizations and other international organizations and bodies, as listed in section V of the terms of reference and methods of work of the Working Group (A/66/20, annex II), as well as from national non-governmental organizations and private sector actors through relevant States members of the Committee.

including training courses, expert meetings and workshops designed especially for building capacity on a regional basis, technical advisory missions conducted on a national basis and general public information events.

the Committee had adopted in recent years, such as the informative interactive dialogue format, had allowed it to pursue those wide-ranging issues in depth.