A/RES/61/75 GA

United Nations A/RES/61/75 General Assembly Distr.: General 18 December 2006 Sixty-first session Agenda item 90 (o) 06-49893 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 6 December 2006 [on the report of the First Committee (A/61/394)] 61/75. Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 60/66 of 8 December 2005, 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, including resolutions 45/55 B of 4 December 1990 and 48/74 B of 16 December 1993, which, inter alia, emphasize the need for increased transparency and confirm the importance of confidence-building measures as a means conducive to ensuring the attainment of the objective of the prevention of an arms race in outer space, Recalling also the report of the Secretary-General of 15 October 1993 to the General Assembly at 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 Noting the constructive debate which the Conference on Disarmament held on this subject in 2006, 1. Invites all Member States to submit to the Secretary-General before its sixty-second session concrete proposals on 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; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixty-second session a report with an annex containing concrete proposals from Member States on international outer space transparency and confidence-building measures; _______________ 1 A/48/305 and Corr.1. A/RES/61/75 2 3. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-second session the item entitled “Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities”. 67th plenary meeting 6 December 2006

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