New York, Safar 16, 1440, Oct 25, 2018, SPA -- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has affirmed that it has made great efforts to transfer and localize space sciences and technologies as well as to employ them to promote vital areas including education, health, water and natural resources management, urban planning, environmental monitoring and communications and satellite navigation in its belief that international cooperation in the field of space activities is an important means of peaceful exploration of outer space. This came in the Kingdom's speech delivered by Dr. Khalid Manzlawi, the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United Nations in front of the UN Special Political and Decolonization Committee's meeting held here yesterday on the item of international cooperation in the International Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. --More 01:08 LOCAL TIME 22:08 GMT 0042 www.spa.gov.sa/w776063