CONFERENCE ONDISARMAMENT ,t.,•CD/1034 16August 1990 Original: ENGLISH REPORT OFTHEADHOCCOMMITTEE ONPREVENTION OF ANARMSRACEINOUTERSPACE I.INTRODUCTION 1.Atits541stplenary meeting on8March1990,theConference on Disarmament adopted thefollowing decision: "Intheexercise ofitsresponsibilities asthemultilateral disarmament negotiating foruminaccordance withparagraph 120ofthe FinalDocument oftheFirstSpecial Session oftheGeneral Assembly devoted todisarmament, theConference onDisarmament decides to re-establish anAdHocCommittee underItem5ofitsagendaentitled 'Prevention ofanarmsraceinouterspace'. TheConference requests theAdHocCommittee, indischarging that responsibility, tocontinue toexamine, andtoidentify, through substantive andgeneral consideration, issuesrelevant totheprevention ofanarmsraceinouterspace. TheAdHocCommittee incarrying outthiswork,willtakeinto accountallexisting agreements, existing proposals andfuture initiatives aswellasdevelopments whichhavetakenplacesincethe establishment oftheAdHocCommittee, in1985,andreportonthe progress ofitsworktotheConference onDisarmament beforetheendof its1990 sess~on." 2.Inthatconnection anumberofdelegations madestatements regarding the scopeofthemandate. 11.ORGANIZATION OFWORKANDDOCUMENTS 3.Atits541stplenary meeting on8March1990,theConference on Disarmament appointed Ambassador GeraldShannon (Canada) asChairman ofthe AdHocCommittee. Mr.Vladimir Bogomolov, Political Affairs Officer, united Nations Department forDisarmament Affairs, servedastheCommittee's Secretary. 1615P GE·90-62583 CD/1034 page2 4.TheAdHocCommittee held16meeti~gs between 13Marchand14August 1990. 5.Attheirrequest, theConference onDisarmament decided toinvitethe representatives ofthefollowing statesnotmembers oftheConference to participate inthemeetings oftheAdHocCommittee: Austria, Bahrein, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Honduras, Iraq,Ireland, Malaysia, NewZealand, Norway, Portugal, Senegal, Spain,Switzerland, Syria,Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, VietNamandZimbabwe. 6.Inaddition tothedocuments oftheprevious sessions1/,the AdHocCommittee hadbeforeitthefollowing documents relating totheagenda itemsubmitted totheConference onDisarmament duringthe1990session: CD/90B/Rev.1 CD/OS/WP.29/Rev.1 CD/976 CD/990 CD/OS/WP.28/Rev.1 CD/OS/WP.41 CDIlOIS CD/OS/WP.42Letterdated22March1990addressed tothe Secretary-General oftheConference onDisarmament fromthePermanent Representative ofVenezuela transmitting alistofexisting proposals onthe prevention ofanarmsraceinouterspace; Mandate foranAdHocCommittee underitem5ofthe agendaoftheConference onDisarmament entitled "Prevention ofanArmsRaceinOuterSpace"; Letterdated18April1990addressed tothe Secretary-General oftheConference onDisarmament fromthePermanent Representative ofCanadatothe Conference onDisarmament transmitting acompendium comprising plenary statements andworking papers relating tothe1989session oftheConference on Disarmament; Letterdated25June1990fromthePermanent Representatives oftheMongolian People's Republic addressed totheChairman oftheAdHocCommittee on Prevention ofanarmsraceinouterspace transmitting aworking paperentitled "Review of proposals andinitiatives ofthestatesMembers ofthe Conference onDisarmament underagendaitem5, 'Prevention ofanArmsRaceinOuterSpace'''; Programme ofWork; Working paperentitled "Proposals forthestrengthening oftheregimeestablished bytheConvention on Registration ofObjects Launched intoouterSpace" submitted byArgentina 1/Thelistofdocuments oftheprevious sessions maybefoundinthe 1985,1986, 1987, 1988and1989reports oftheAdHocCommittee, andinthe special reporttothethirdspecial session oftheGeneral Assembly devoted to disarmament (CD/642, CD/732. CD/787, CD/870, CD/834 andCD/9S6, respectively). CD/1034 page3 Ill.SUBSTANTIVE WORKDURING THE1990SESSION 7.Following aninitial andextensive exchange ofviewsandconsultations on thep~og~amme ando~ganization ofwo~kheldbytheChairman with va~ious
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