Bogota Declaration

[1] These claims have been one of the few attempts to challenge the 1967 Outer Space Treaty, but they did not receive wider international support or recognition.

In this time period, many countries in Africa and Asia were either newly independent or still in the process of decolonization from its former European colonizers.

[3] Representatives of Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Congo, Zaire (in 1997 renamed to the Democratic Republic of the Congo), Uganda, Kenya, and Indonesia met in Bogotá, Colombia in 1976 and signed the declaration, thereby claiming control of the segment of the geosynchronous orbital path corresponding to each country,[4] and argued that the segments above the high seas were the "common heritage of mankind" and ought, therefore, to be collectively governed by all nations.

[5] This would have led to a space ownership issue of practical importance, seen the satellites present in this geostationary orbit, whose slot allocations were managed by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

These claims were seen as violating the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and did not receive wider international support or recognition.