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This committee identified areas for international cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space, devised programs to be undertaken by the United Nations, encouraged research on matters relating to outer space, and studied legal problems arising from the exploration of outer space.ĭuring the 1960s and 1970s a number of agreements were adopted to prevent the weaponization of outer space. In 1959, the UN General Assembly established the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in Resolution 1472 (XIV). Currently being discussed in the Conference on Disarmament (CD).