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United Nations General Assembly President Addresses Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
SpaceRef ^ | Wednesday, June 02, 2004 | United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs

Posted on 06/03/2004 10:38:03 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer

Contribution of UN's Outer Space Activities to Sustainable Development and Importance of Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management Emphasized

VIENNA, 2 June (UN Information Service) -- Julian Robert Hunte, President of the fifty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly, addressed the opening meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in Vienna today. The key item on the agenda of the COPUOS meeting will be finalizing the preparations for the General Assembly's review of the implementation of the recommendations of the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNISPACE III) in October 2004.

Mr. Hunte said that the General Assembly was looking forward to receiving the COPUOS report in October and welcomed the decision of COPUOS to include in its report synergies between the implementation of the recommendations of UNISPACE III and the implementation of the commitments made in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and outcome documents of the World Summits for Sustainable Development and on the Information Society in its report. He underlined that such an approach fosters cooperation and consensus in addressing development objectives, and meeting internationally agreed-upon development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals.

Noting the unique and vital responsibility of COPUOS in highlighting the role that space science and technology can play in assisting the United Nations in achieving its economic and social development goals, Mr. Hunte underlined that one of the most important achievements of COPUOS has been the establishment of regional centres for space science and technology education, affiliated with the United Nations. These centres help develop and strengthen the skills and knowledge of university educators, and research and application scientists in the areas of space science and technology. As such, the centres contribute to sustainable development in those countries and regions.

Mr. Hunte drew attention to the growing role that space-based solutions are playing in mitigating the catastrophic effects of natural disasters, and noted that the workshops, seminars and symposia conducted within the framework of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications make a distinct contribution in this field. Pointing out that natural disasters constitute one of the most critical challenges to sustainable development, Mr. Hunte noted that the reduction and mitigation of natural disasters is among the priorities of the United Nations, and a particular issue for the General Assembly.

Mr. Hunte commended the Committee for its continuing commitment and initiatives to ensure that the exploration and peaceful uses of outer space benefit all countries, particularly those of the developing world.

COPUOS was set up by the General Assembly in 1959 to review the scope of international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space, to devise programmes in this field to be undertaken under United Nations auspices, to encourage continued research and the dissemination of information on outer space matters and to study legal problems arising from the exploration of outer space. COPUOS and its two Subcommittees each meet annually to consider questions put before them by the General Assembly, reports submitted to them and issues raised by the Member States. The Committee and the Subcommittees, working on the basis of consensus, make recommendations to the General Assembly.

United Nations Information Service Vienna (UNIS) P.O.Box 500, A-1400 Vienna, Austria Tel.: (+43-1) 26060 4666, FAX: (+43-1) 26060 5899 Email: UNIS@unvienna.org

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: development; goliath; militaryspace; space; sustainable; treaty; unitednations
More nonsense from the United Nations
1 posted on 06/03/2004 10:38:05 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: RightWhale; KevinDavis

Space PING


2 posted on 06/03/2004 10:38:33 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
I foresee the "two minute hate" directed towards the USA from this (UNISPACE III)in October 2004.
3 posted on 06/03/2004 10:51:26 PM PDT by endthematrix (To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
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Whats a "two minute hate"?

I find this interesting as well--
Noting the unique and vital responsibility of COPUOS in highlighting the role that space science and technology can play in assisting the United Nations in achieving its economic and social development goals

I thought the UN was just a debating body. /sarcasm off
4 posted on 06/03/2004 11:02:47 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
From George Orwell's novel Nineteen-eighty-four. A parade of horrible images and sounds, at which, the viewers were expected to boo, hiss, curse. and release any negative emotions upon. The Two Minute Hate - 2:20 - The Two Minute hate from the opening credits of the movie.
5 posted on 06/03/2004 11:13:01 PM PDT by endthematrix (To enter my lane you must use your turn signal!)
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To: hedgetrimmer

Bunch of hot exhaust. Most of the UN space thought orbits around ESA. NASA is on a different planet. Since most space activity is NASA and Russia, the UN is the tail of the comet as is ESA. However, the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty looms over everything like a blue moon. This treaty is designed by provincialists to keep us on earth forever.


6 posted on 06/04/2004 8:49:54 AM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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I wonder if those boobs from the UN realize that we may not be alone and there could be some hostile aliens???

Space Ping! This is the Space Ping List! Let me know if you want on or off this list!
7 posted on 06/04/2004 6:41:28 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: RightWhale

I wouldn't worry about the UN, I have a feeling it is going disappear real soon.


8 posted on 06/04/2004 6:42:34 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
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To: KevinDavis

There has always been international cooperation in space science and with or without the UN. The UN provides meeting rooms, beyond that maybe the guy with the mop that cleans up in the evening.


9 posted on 06/04/2004 8:04:17 PM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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To: KevinDavis
"I wonder if those boobs from the UN realize that we may not be alone and there could be some hostile aliens???"

Read Rare Earth by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee. They demonstrate--almost beyond any argument to the contrary--that we are alone.

Personally, I place the number of intelligent alien species in the Milky Way at <10 (if you count us as intelligent).

--Boris

10 posted on 06/06/2004 12:25:34 PM PDT by boris (The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a Leftist with a word processor)
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To: hedgetrimmer
Just how many times has the UN gone into space? That's right. NONE.


Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the USA!

11 posted on 06/06/2004 12:31:09 PM PDT by Militiaman7 (Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.)
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