Transparency and Confidence-Building Measures in Outer Space Activities

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 96ee Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities, published in 2014.

What other versions does this mandate have?

19 versions · 2006–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/44

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/44	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,747	93%Compare
2024	A/RES/79/51	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,648	95%Compare
2023	A/RES/78/52	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,684	83%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/251	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,542	87%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/55	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities	1,495	87%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2023

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2023	A/78/75	Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/77/251

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Arms Race Confidence-Building Measures Groups of Experts Outer Space Transparency in Armaments

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Stresses the importance of the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence-building Measures in Outer Space Activities,⁶ considered by the General Assembly on 5 December 2013;

⁶A/68/189.

Encourages Member States to continue to review and implement, to the greatest extent practicable, the proposed transparency and confidence-building measures contained in the report, through relevant national mechanisms, on a voluntary basis and in a manner consistent with the national interests of Member States;

Decides, in order to further advance transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space, to refer the recommendations contained in the report to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, the Disarmament Commission and the Conference on Disarmament for consideration, as appropriate;

Requests the relevant entities and organizations of the United Nations system, to which, in accordance with resolution 68/50, the report of the Group of Governmental Experts on Transparency and Confidence-building Measures in Outer Space Activities was circulated, to assist in effectively implementing the conclusions and recommendations contained therein, as appropriate;

Encourages relevant entities and organizations of the United Nations system to coordinate, as appropriate, on matters related to the recommendations contained in the report;

Decides to convene, within existing resources, a joint ad hoc meeting of the Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Committee) and the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) to address possible challenges to space security and sustainability, and to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, a sub-item entitled “Joint ad hoc meeting of the First and Fourth Committees on possible challenges to space security and sustainability”;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventieth session, under the item entitled “General and complete disarmament”, the sub-item entitled “Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities”.

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

What other versions does this mandate have?

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

What subjects does this mandate have?

What’s in this document?

Table of contents