A/RES/76/55
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 December 2021
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 100 (v)
General and complete disarmament: transparency and
confidence-building measures in outer space activities
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 6 December 2021
[on the report of the First Committee (A/76/444, para. 93)]
76/55.
Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer
space activities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 60/66 of 8 December 2005, 61/75 of 6 December 2006,
62/43 of 5 December 2007, 63/68 of 2 December 2008, 64/49 of 2 December 2009,
65/68 of 8 December 2010, 68/50 of 5 December 2013, 69/38 of 2 December 2014,
70/53 of 7 December 2015, 71/42 of 5 December 2016, 71/90 of 6 December 2016,
72/56 of 4 December 2017, 73/72 of 5 December 2018, 74/67 of 12 December 2019
and 75/69 of 7 December 2020, as well as its decision 66/517 of 2 December 2011,
Recalling also the report of the Secretary-General of 15 October 1993 to the
General Assembly at its forty-eighth session, the annex to which contains the study
by governmental experts on the application of confidence-building measures in outer
space, 1
Reaffirming the right of all countries to explore and use outer space in
accordance with international law,
Reaffirming also that preventing an arms race in outer space is in the interest of
maintaining international peace and security and is an essential condition for the
promotion and strengthening of international cooperation in the exploration and use
of outer space for peaceful purposes,
Recalling, in this context, its resolutions 45/55 B of 4 December 1990 and
48/74 B of 16 December 1993, in which, inter alia, it recognized the need for
increased transparency and confirmed the importance of confidence -building
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