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The United Nations Ad Hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Philip C. Jessup  and
Howard J. Taubenfeld
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , October 1959 , pp. 877 - 881
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1959

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References

1 Res. 1348 (XIII). For consideration of U.N. discussions with respect to outer space in 1958, see Taubenfeld, 53 A.J.I.L. 400-405 (1959).

2 See Summary Records, U.N. Docs. A/AC.98/SR. 1-3, especially speeches of Ambassador Lodge, Dr. Hugh L. Dryden (Deputy Administrator of NASA) and Loftus E” Becker (Legal Adviser to the Department of State), SR.l, pp. 4-6, SB.2, pp. 4-6, SR.3? pp. 3-7.

3 U.N. Press Release PM/3728 (May 6, 1959).

4 See TJ.N. Does. A/AC.98/L.1 and Rev. 1; L.4-6.

5 See, for example, ibid. SR.2, pp. 3 fl°.

6 Dr. Hugh L. Dryden, ibid. SR.2, pp. 4-6. See also comments of the Iranian representative, ibid. SR.2, pp. 3-4.

7 See ibid. SE.2, pp. 6-7.

8 See remarks of the Japanese and Italian representatives, ibid. TECH/SR.1.

9 The Technical Committee's Report is U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/3.

10 U.N, Docs. A/AC.98/L.7 and L.8.

11 The Legal Committee's Report is U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/2.

12 In a proposed draft report, the words “the sea” were followed by “and other regions of the Earth.” These words were deleted at the insistence of the Argentine representative, who argued that they might be taken to mean the Polar Regions and that “The territories of Antarctica were subject to national sovereignty, a fact that excluded any possibility of analogy with air [sic] space. As the general trend of the report was in favour of treating outer space as res oommimis omnium, he wished to ensure that the … paragraph was not interpreted to mean that the same situation prevailed with respect to Antarctica.” U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/C.2/SB.5 (PROV).

13 The United States had also suggested that the problem of relations with extraterrestrial life has a very low priority. U.N. Doe. A/AC/98/L.7.

14 See U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/4, and, as approved by the Committee, ibid. L.13.

15 U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/L.10.

16 See U.N. Docs. A/AC.98/L.11, SE.4 (PROV) and SE.5 (PROV).

17 The Australian representative suggested that not only geographical distribution but the present distribution of capabilities and active interest in outer space also be considered. U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/SB.5 (PROV), p. 4. On the difficulties with this idea, see XJ.N. Press Release OS/26 (June 25, 1959).

18 U.N. Doc. A/AC.98/8R.4 (PROV), p. 6.

19 See, e.g., ibid. 8R.5 (PROV), pp. 4-5.

20 See ibid. SR.5 (PROV). The Report is U.N. Doc. A/4141.