Further Practical Measures for the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space

A/RES/72/250View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 97a Prevention of an arms race in outer space, published in 2018.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 2018–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/21

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/21	Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space	1,234	79%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/250	Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space	1,298	77%Compare
2021	A/RES/76/230	Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space	1,031	50%Compare
2019	A/RES/74/34	Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space	702	27%Compare
2018	A/RES/72/250	Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space	593	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Arms Race Disarmament Agreements Groups of Experts Outer Space

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Expresses its deep regret over the years of stalemate in the work of the Conference on Disarmament, and looks forward to the Conference again fulfilling its mandate as the world’s single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum;

Urges the Conference on Disarmament to agree on and implement at its earliest opportunity a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that includes the immediate commencement of negotiations on an international legally binding instrument on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, including, inter alia, on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space;

Requests the Secretary-General to establish a United Nations Group of Governmental Experts, with a membership of up to 25 Member States, chosen on the basis of fair and equitable geographical representation, to consider and make recommendations on substantial elements of an international legally binding instrument on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, including, inter alia, on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space;

Decides that the newly established Group of Governmental Experts will operate by consensus, without prejudice to national positions in future negotiations, and hold two 2-week sessions in Geneva, one in 2018 and the other in 2019;

Requests the Chair of the Group of Governmental Experts to organize, in New York, a two-day open-ended intersessional informal consultative meeting, in 2019, so that all Member States can engage in interactive discussions and share their views on the basis of a report on the work of the Group to be provided by the Chair in his own capacity;

Requests the Secretary-General to transmit the report of the Group of Governmental Experts to the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session and to the Conference on Disarmament prior to its 2020 session;

Decides that, if the Conference on Disarmament agrees upon and implements a balanced and comprehensive programme of work that includes the negotiation of an international legally binding instrument on the prevention of an arms race in outer space, including, inter alia, on the prevention of the placement of weapons in outer space, the newly established Group of Governmental Experts will conclude its work and submit the results thereof to the Secretary-General for onward transmission to the Conference on Disarmament;

Also decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-third session an item entitled “Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space”.

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