UN-SPIDER Programmes approved

27 December 2007, 12:13pm

The United Nations General Assembly during its last session of the main part of the current 62nd Session endorsed the work plan for 2007 of the United Nations Platform for Space-Based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER), along with the platform programme for the biennium 2007-2009 and the plan of work for the period 2008-2009.

Check out:

http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/unspider/docs.html.

At the same session the United Nations General Assembly also endorsed the draft resolution on the International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space which, among other decisions, urges all countries, in particular those with major space capabilities, to contribute actively to the goal of preventing an arms race in outer space, agrees that Bolivia and Switzerland become members of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and endorses the Committee’s Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines.

For further info:

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2007/ga10684.doc.htm

Source: UN-SPIDER Nov/Dec 2007 Newsletter

To subscribe to UN-SPIDER Updates, visit

http://www.ungiwg.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/unspider

www.unvienna.org

Geo: International