  In 1990, the United Nations, in cooperation with the European Space Agency,
initiated the organization of a series of annual Workshops on Basic Space
Science for the benefit of astronomers and space scientists in Asia and the
Pacific, Latin American and the Caribbean, Africa, Western Asia, and Europe.
This article summarizes accomplishments of these Workshops (1991-1998) and
their follow-up projects with a view to enhance the worldwide development of
astronomy and space science. The Workshops are being considered unique and a
model for such an endeavor.
