Russia has accused the United States of pursuing weapons development in space, a day following the UN Security Council rejected a Russian draft resolution on the matter.
The move follows similar accusations from Washington once morest Moscow.
This exchange of accusations revives the fear, which had disappeared following the Cold War, of a possible arms race in space, despite the existence since 1967 of an outer space treaty which calls “for the non-development of nuclear weapons or any other of the weapons of mass destruction that have been specially designed to be put into orbit’.
What does the Russian Foreign Minister say?
With the rejection of the Russian text yesterday, Monday, by Washington and its allies, the United States demonstrated that they aim to “place weapons in outer space and make it an arena of military conflict”, the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy complained Maria Zakharova.
“A new opportunity to prevent an arms race in space was lost through the fault of the United States and its allies,” Zakharova continued, defending the Russian draft resolution as a “constructive initiative.”
In late April, the United States and Japan had presented before the Security Council their own draft decision to prevent a militarization of space, but the Russia criticized the fact that the text only focused on one type of weapon, nuclear weapons.
The draft resolution presented yesterday, Monday, by Russia and China, which partially repeated the text blocked in April, also called on all member states to take “urgent measures to forever prevent the placement of weapons in space and the threat of use or the use of power in space’.
According to iefimerida, with seven votes in favor (mainly Russia, China, Algeria), seven once morest (mainly the US, Britain, France) and one abstention (Switzerland), the text did not gather the nine votes it was necessary to be adopted.
US Deputy Ambassador Robert Wood called the Russian initiative “hypocritical” and said that Moscow wants to “distract attention from its dangerous efforts to put a nuclear weapon in orbit”. The White House had asserted in February that Russia was developing an anti-satellite nuclear weapon, accusations rejected by Moscow.
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