Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space: 2025
Sixty-eighth session (25 June-2 July 2025)
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Informal consultations prior to the COPUOS session, on 23 and 24 June 2025
23 June 2025
- Informal consultations of the ATLAC
09:30 - 11:00 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
- Informal consultations on the proposal to hold UNISPACE IV
13:30 - 15:30 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
- Informal consultations on the proposal on international cooperation and benefit-sharing
15:45 - 17:15 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre
24 June 2025
- Informal consultations led by Germany on Space Traffic Study Group
09:00 - 10:00 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre
- Informal consultations of the WG-LTS of STSC
10:00 - 12:00 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
- Informal consultations led by the Russian Federation on the draft resolution of the United Nations General Assembly "Space Science and Technology for Promoting Peace"
12:30 - 14:00 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre;
Note Verbale
- Informal consultations of the ATLAC
14:30 - 16:00 CEST, Room M2 of the Vienna International Centre and via virtual connection
Schedule of Informal Meetings of Working Groups
- Working Group on the Long-term Sustainability of Outer Space Activities:
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- 26 June 2025, 13:30 - 14:50 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M2, VIC / MS Teams.
- 27 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M2, VIC / MS Teams.
- 30 June 2025, 09:00 - 09:50 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M2, VIC / MS Teams.
- Working Group on the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space (Intersessional meeting)
- 30 June 2025, 13:30 - 14:50 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M5, VIC / MS Teams.
- 1 July 2025, 13:30 - 14:50 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M5, VIC / MS Teams
Schedule of informal consultations
- Informal consultations on the proposal to hold UNISPACE IV
- 26 June 2025, 09:00 - 10:00 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M2, VIC / MS Teams.
- 30 June 2025, 13:10 - 14:00 Vienna Time/CEST, M-Building, Room M2, VIC / MS Teams
Schedule of other meetings
On ATLAC (hybrid, link provided to States members of the Committee)
- 27 June 2025, 09:00 - 09:50, Vienna time/CEST, room M2 of the VIC
Side event information
Please send all requests for side events to the unoosa-submissions email account by 28 May 2025.
All Permanent Missions to the United Nations and permanent observers of COPUOS are invited to a briefing in connection with the preparations for the forthcoming sixty-eighth session of COPUOS. During the briefing, the secretariat will respond to any questions concerning the organization of the session. The hybrid event will take place in CR-1 at the Vienna International Centre on Thursday, 5 June 2025, at 2 p.m. (Vienna Time). In-person attendance is available to individuals with a valid grounds pass for the Vienna International Centre. Delegations attending virtually are invited to use the link contained in the Invitation circular OOSA/2025/44 - CU 2025/175 of 28 May 2025.
Decision on scheduling of the sixty-eighth session of COPUOS
Decision: The Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space decides that the sixty-eighth session of the Committee will be held from 25 June to 2 July 2025. This shortening of the session from the originally scheduled one does not constitute a precedent for future sessions of the Committee and its subcommittees.
Reference: Official communications from the Office for Outer Space Affairs to States members of the Committee, OOSA/2025/36 - CU 2025/157 of 22 May 2025 and OOSA/2025/43 - CU 2025/173 of 27 May 2025.
Session Documents
A/AC.105/L.341
A/RES/79/87
A/RES/79/86
A/79/20
A/AC.105/
GARES
A/AC.105/
COPUOSREPORTS