be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development, and shall be the province of all mankind." When this paragraph was analyzed by the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations as it engaged in its constitutional function of giving its advice and consent to the President, the Committee formally stated that "nothing in Article 1, paragraph 1, of the Treaty diminishes or alters the right of the United States to determine how it shares the benefits and results of its space activities. 1.7 Policy as the Product of Legal and Scientific Forces Admittedly, the science and technology of the radio spectrum and of the effectively operating geostationary orbit are complex. Undoubtedly, many of the aspects of an operating SPS will present challenges of enormous magnitude. The processes of international law and its institutions have a complexity of their own, admittedly different from the complexity of the scientific and technological world, but nonetheless in their way such legal and political processes are complex. The purpose here is to effect a meaningful joinder of these two processes so that the SPS and its solar energy will serve the needs of mankind. As stated, solar energy is a natural resource. The radio spectrum is a natural resource. The slot occupied by a geostationary satellite in orbit is a natural resource. As natural resources of the space environment pursuant to the Principles Treaty they are to be treated as the province of all mankind. And, as provided in Article 33 of the 1973 ITU Convention the parties are obliged to bear in mind in the employment of "Treaty on Outer Space, Report," 90th Cong. 1st Sess., Executive Rept. No. 8, p. 4 (April 18, 1967).
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