that it should acquire a television broadcasting satellite of its own that it would be necessary to put it into an orbit over the equator above Indonesia. Therefore, Papua New Guinea, consistent with its own position at the WARC BC, stated that it considered "the use of the geostationary orbit is not subject to sovereignty rights of any country and should be used to benefit all mankind." Papua New Guinea expressed its willingness for a task force to be set up within COPUOS preparatory to the proposed conference. But when recommendations were made relating to the Bogota Declaration, such recommendations would have to be "studied carefully before any consent is given of its final recommendation to the United Nations Committee for the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space." Israel forthrightly acknowledged some skepticism as to the utility of such a conference because of the limited performances of some of the UN-sponsored conferences and because of the political pitfalls associated with them. Nonetheless, assuming adequate preparation, it was considered that the conference might have "as one of its major subject areas the possible implementation of an international project designed to facilitate the utilization of outer space for the transmission to earth of unharnessed energy from the sun." Support for the proposed conference was in part based on the view that the benefits to be derived from solar energy should be equally distributed. This "could be better met by an international effort rather than by separate national projects."? Ibid. , p. 8. Ibid. U.N. Doc. A/AC.105/142/Add. 14, p. 2, February 27, 1978. Ibid.
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