Obed Y. Asamoah’s scientific contributions

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Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space
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January 1966

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Obed Y. Asamoah

Two declarations of legal principles to govern the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space have been adopted by the Assembly-one in 1961 and the other in 1963. The latter Declaration reaffirms and expands the scope of the earlier one. The principles contained in it represent the consensus and maximum agreement attainable by the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer-Space established by the Assembly to deal with technical co-operation of states and the legal regulation of outer space.

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... Having been ratified or acceded to by the majority of states, including the major spacefaring nations, it is generally considered the Magna Carta of international space law. More crucially, because of the consistent and widespread international support for its fundamental tenets, and the fact that it was based on an earlier 1963 Declaration adopted by consensus in the United Nations General Assembly [43], the principles enshrined in the Outer Space Treaty have taken on the status of customary international law [44]. They are therefore binding on all states, even those that have neither signed nor ratified the Outer Space Treaty. ...

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Mars through the looking glass: An interdisciplinary analysis of forward and backward contamination
Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space
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  • January 1966

Obed Y. Asamoah