1. DW4XL, as it is sometimes abbreviated, has slightly improved weather effects and character reflections within the overall graphics.

2. Within the framework of the ICG workplan, the Office for Outer Space Affairs has conducted the following activities: (a) a session on ionospheric storms and space weather effects during the twelfth International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy, held in Heraklion, Greece, from # to # ay # co-organized with the Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific, the United States and ICG; (b) the International Training Course on Satellite Navigation and Location-Based Services, held in Ahmedabad, India, from # une to # uly # and (c) the ICG expert meeting on global navigation satellite systems and services on # uly # during the thirty-seventh Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research, held in Montreal, Canada, from # to # uly