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COPUOS/T.551 

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General Assembly, that these matters, these issues 



become visible and prominent in the eyes of the 

international community. 

 

 

Thank you Mr. Chairman. 



 

 

The CHAIRMAN 



(interpretation from 

French):  I thank Ambassador Raimundo González for 

his contribution.  I think the contribution that this 

Committee can make to the United Nations Report on 

Sustainable Development is something that we should 

come back to and the fact that space activities are not 

mentioned in the most recent version of that report is 

regrettable and we, as a Committee, should make an 

effort to convey the necessary information, the 

necessary messages to the editorial staff of this annual 

report.  The role of space activities in sustainable 

development should be highlighted. 

 

 



I am now going to call upon Ambassador 

Guoqiang Tang of China. 

 

 

Mr. G. TANG (China) (interpretation from 



Chinese):  Mr. Chairman, first of all, please allow me, 

on behalf of the Chinese delegation, to congratulate 

you on your election as Chairman of this session of 

COPUOS.  We believe that, under the guidance of you 

and other members of the Bureaux and with the 

common efforts and cooperation of all members of the 

Committee, this session will successfully accomplish 

its tasks, thus contributing to the peaceful use of outer 

space and international cooperation.  The Chinese 

delegation will, as always, actively support and 

participate in various activities of this Committee, to 

ensure the success of the session. 

 

 

Mr. Chairman, China’s development in the 



space sector during the past 50 years tells us that 

advances in space technology and its applications can 

lead to a quantum leap in relevant scientific fields and 

the overall technological capacity, through which 

national economy, scientific and technological 

development and the living standard of the population 

can be fostered and the final objective of benefiting the 

whole mankind can be realized. 

 

 

Over the past year, China achieved new 



successes in its space effort.  Apart from the successful 

launches of the telecommunications satellites Asia-

Pacific-6, scientific experiment satellite SHIJIAN-7 

and two other recoverable satellites, we sent yet 

another manned spacecraft, Shenzhou-6, with two 

astronauts aboard into space in October 2005, 

subsequent to the successful flight of Shenzhou-5.  

After five days of flight around the Earth, it landed 

safely and became our first space experiment with the 

participation of multiple crew members and the 

anticipated results were achieved. 

 

 



In addition, the Chinese Government 

continues to carry out international cooperation and 

exchanges with other countries, space agencies and 

international space organizations in the areas of space 

technology and applications on the basis of peaceful 

use, equality and mutual benefit, complementarity and 

common progress.  In 2005, the Chinese Government 

successfully hosted the Asia Disaster Reduction 

Conference in Beijing, which adopted the Beijing Plan 

of Action for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia. 

 

 

It is noteworthy that the effort of the Chinese 



Government to promote multilateral cooperation in the 

field of space technology and applications in the field 

of space technology and applications in the Asia-

Pacific region has achieved remarkable progress.  The 

Convention of Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation 

Organization was open for signature in Beijing on 28 

October 2005, and as of 1 June this year, there are 

already nine Signatory States, namely, Bangladesh

China, Indonesia, Iran, Mongolia, Pakistan, Peru, 

Thailand and Turkey.  The Convention will enter into 

force following the fifth ratification.  By then, the 

Asia-Pacific Space Cooperation Organization will 

formally come into being, with its headquarters in 

Beijing.  We are convinced that the Asia-Pacific Space 

Cooperation Organization will contribute to the 

expansion of exchanges and cooperation among 

countries, to economic development, social progress 

and enhancement of living standard in Asia-Pacific. 

 

 

Mr. Chairman, during its eleventh five-year 



plan period, namely from 2006 to 2010, China will, by 

way of encouraging innovation and enhancing 

international cooperation, continue to press ahead with 

the transformation of its space industry from the phase 

of experimental applications to the phase of operational 

services, developing communication, navigation and 

remote sensing satellites and their applications and 

forming a space industry chain which covers space, 

ground, end-products manufacturing and operational 

services. 

 

 

Mr. Chairman, the rapid growth of space 



activities and space technology offers not just 

tremendous opportunities for development, but also 

serious tests and challenges.  For nearly 50 years, the 

international community has made sustained efforts to 

maintain outer space for peaceful use.  However, the 

policy of a certain country to test, deploy and use 

weapons and weapon systems in outer space is 

disconcerting.  Outer space is the common heritage of 

mankind and weaponization of outer space is bound to 



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