The mission of COPUOS is "to review the scope of international cooperation in peaceful uses of Outer Space , to devise programmes in this field to be undertaken under United Nations auspices, to encourage continued research and the dissemination of information on outer space matters, and to study legal problems arising from the Exploration Of Outer Space ."
The Committee has two subcommittees, the Scientific and Technical Subcommittee and the Legal Subcommittee (LSC) .
Member nations as of 2004 are: Albania , Algeria , Argentina , Australia , Austria , Belgium , Benin , Brazil , Bulgaria , Burkina Faso , Cameroon , Canada , Chad , Chile , China , Colombia , Cuba , Czech Republic , Ecuador , Egypt , France , Hungary , Germany , Greece , India , Indonesia , Iran , Iraq , Italy , Japan , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Lebanon , Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , Malaysia , Mexico , Mongolia , Morocco , Netherlands , Nicaragua , Niger , Nigeria , Pakistan , Peru , Philippines , Poland , Portugal , Republic Of Korea , Romania , the Russian Federation , Saudi Arabia , Senegal , Sierra Leone , Slovakia , South Africa , Spain , Sudan , Sweden , Syrian Arab Republic , Thailand , Turkey , the United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland , the United States Of America , Ukraine , Uruguay , Venezuela , and Vietnam .
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