United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
Document Type
Website
Abstract
The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) is the United Nations office responsible for promoting international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. UNOOSA serves as the secretariat for the General Assembly’s only committee dealing exclusively with international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space: the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS).
UNOOSA is also responsible for implementing the Secretary-General’s responsibilities under international space law and maintaining the United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space. The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is the forum for the development of international space law. Each of the treaties stresses the notion that outer space, the activities carried out in outer space to enhance the well-being of all countries and humankind, with an emphasis on promoting international cooperation.
Publication Date
2018
Recommended Citation
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, "United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs" (2018). AALL Legal Website of the Month. 67.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/aall_websites/67