United Nations Mandate Source RegistryBeta Version
UN Secretariat MandatesUN System Mandates
United Nations (opens in new tab)
(opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab)
Donate (opens in new tab)
  • A-Z Site Index (opens in new tab)
  • Contact (opens in new tab)
  • Copyright (opens in new tab)
  • FAQ (opens in new tab)
  • Fraud Alert (opens in new tab)
  • Privacy Notice (opens in new tab)
  • Terms of Use (opens in new tab)

International Co-Operation in the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

A/RES/1472(XIV)View PDF

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 25Report of the Ad-Hoc Committee the Peaceful Wses of Outer Space, published in 1959.

What else is in this group?

78 documents · 1960–2025
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).
  • 2025A/RES/80/76International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer spaceCompare with earlier document
  • 2024A/RES/79/87International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer spaceCompare with earlier document
  • 2023A/RES/78/72International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer spaceCompare with earlier document
  • 2022A/RES/77/121International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer spaceCompare with earlier document
  • 2021A/RES/76/76International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer spaceCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

2 entities

A dot marks an entity citing this document in its “Mandates and background” narrative rather than only its Legislative mandates list. Many do both.

iExtracted automatically from each entity’s budget submission.

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
ConferencesEstablishmentInformation DisseminationLegal ResearchOuter SpacePeaceful CoexistenceSpace Research

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs
1
Establishes a Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, consisting of Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, France, Hungary, India, Iran, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Poland, Romania, Sweden, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Arab Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, whose members will serve for the years 1960 and 1961, and requests the Committee:
a
To review, as appropriate, the area of international co-operation, and to study practical and feasible means for giving effect to programmes in the peaceful uses of outer space which could appropriately be undertaken under United Nations auspices, including, inter alia:
i
Assistance for the continuation on a permanent basis of the research on outer space carried on within the framework of the International Geophysical Year;
ii
Organization of the mutual exchange and dissemination of information on outer space research;
iii
Encouragement of national research programmes for the study of outer space, and the rendering of all possible assistance and help towards their realization;
b
To study the nature of legal problems which may arise from the exploration of outer space;
2
Requests the Committee to submit reports on its activities to the subsequent sessions of the General Assembly.

iParagraph content is machine-extracted from UN documents. For authoritative content, please refer to the official UN document.

Table of contents

No headings found in this document.