Venezuela’s space activities are coordinated by the Bolivarian Agency for Space Activities (ABAE), a public institution under the Ministry of Popular Power for Science and Technology.

Established in 2008, ABAE serves as the executing body for public policies related to the peaceful exploration and use of outer space and coordinates with other public institutions to design and implement strategies, programs, and regulations that integrate space activities into national development.

Venezuela is party to the Outer Space Treaty, the Liability Convention, Registration Convention, Rescue Agreement, the Moon Agreement, the Partial Test Ban Treaty, and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.

It is also a Member State to the International Telecommunications Union, the Latin American and Caribbean Space Agency (ALCE), the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, and is a subscribing State to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation.

Venezuela has contributed statements relevant to space security to the Conference on Disarmament, the Disarmament Commission and First Committee. It has also made a political commitment to not be the first to place weapons in outer space.