Russia circulates new Security Council resolution to prevent weapons in outer space
RUSSIA circulated a United Nations resolution on Wednesday, calling on all countries to take urgent action to prevent putting weapons in outer space “for all time” a week after it vetoed a United States-Japan resolution to stop an arms race in space.
The Russian draft resolution goes further than the US-Japan proposal, not only calling for efforts to stop weapons from being deployed in outer space but for preventing “the threat or use of force in outer space,” also “for all time.”
It says this should include deploying weapons “from space against Earth, and from Earth against objects in outer space.”
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