STRATEGY: UN SPACE PRESERVATION RESOLUTION

STRATEGY: UN RESOLUTION MANDATING DEADLINE FOR SPACE PRESERVATION TREATY

The 59th Regular Session of the U.N. General Assembly began on September 14, 2004 at 3:00 PM in the General Assembly Hall, United Nations Building, New York.

CAMPAIGN STRATEGY:

· Outreach to selected U.N. Member Nation delegations, like Canada, Russia and/or China (and others), which have been actively seeking a treaty banning space-based weapons.

· Seek a U.N. General Assembly Resolution placing a time limit for the United Nations Conference on Disarmament to negotiate a Treaty banning space-based weapons.

· The General Assembly Resolution would mandate a Special Treaty Conference process to permanently ban weapons in space. If the UNCD (Or other United Nations body like the COPOUS passes this deadline,

The bottle-neck blocking the negotiation and implementation of a treaty permanently banning space-based weapons is the political log-jam at the UNCD.

A United Nations Space Preservation Resolution will place this log-jam in the limelight of public debate, and create a timeline for its resolution.

If the UNCD (or other United Nations body like the COPOUS (Committee on the Peaceful Uses of OUter Space) or the Ad Hoc PAROS Committee) cannot agree to negotiate a treaty by the time deadline (United Nations Day: October 24, 2005), then the General Assembly Resolution mandates a Special Treaty Conference process to negotiate a treaty banning space-based weapons. The Treaty Conference process was successfully used when Canada convened a “Treaty-signing conference in December 1997, where 122 countries signed the Convention Banning Land Mines (the Ottawa Process).”

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