Russia’s obstruction of the American resolution to deploy weapons in space

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting “Tass” news agency, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia’s permanent representative to the United Nations, announced that the United States tried to discredit Russia by presenting its desired draft resolution to the Security Council on the non-deployment of nuclear weapons in space.

He said last night at the Security Council meeting: The permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations (Linda Thomas-Greenfield), by reading his country’s proposal, actually disclosed and directly confirmed his country’s goals. that Washington’s only goal in presenting this draft was to humiliate and discredit Russia. Nebenzia emphasized that the Russian side is ready “even tomorrow” to Sign a legally binding international agreement that includes a comprehensive ban on the deployment of any weapons in outer space, not just weapons of mass destruction, which are already banned, but ensure that the United States is not willing to give up on the militarization of space. He said: “The problem is that our Western partners, who are actively engaged in space-military explorations, are not ready for this.”

Russia and China proposed for the US and Japan resolution

Vasily Nebenzia also said that Russia and China proposed to the UN Security Council on the amendment of the US draft resolution and Japan should vote on not deploying nuclear weapons in space. According to him, the Russian-Chinese amendment only supplements [the US-Japanese draft] with provisions on the inadmissibility of deploying any type of weapon in space.

Rep. Russia’s official explained at the Security Council meeting: Washington and Tokyo have prepared a draft resolution in the Security Council that requires countries to destroy nuclear weapons or other types of weapons of mass destruction that are intended to be placed in Earth’s orbit or installed on celestial bodies, as well as placing Stop in space in any other way. In turn, Moscow and Beijing proposed an amendment to the draft that called on all countries to “take immediate measures to prevent the deployment of military weapons in outer space and the threat of use of force in space and from space to Earth, as well as from Earth to Earth.”

In addition, Nebenzia noted the fact that the US-Japan draft resolution on non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction The gathering in space only aims to strengthen the divide between the members of the UN Security Council and also has a “limited and politicized nature” and has “nothing to do with peaceful space issues”.

The diplomat noted that the Russian amendments were not taken into account in the draft Security Council resolution on nuclear weapons in space. Nebenzia added that the Russian side tirelessly asked the authors of the initiative to “put aside their biased policy and return to the path of constructive interaction to take into account the opinions of all members of the council.”

Last night, Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, also explained why the country drafted A joint US-Japanese resolution has blocked targeting of weapons in space. According to him, the amendments proposed by Russia were ignored, despite the fact that they indicated the importance of developing a binding international document, while clarifying only several provisions of the main text of the previous draft.

Zakharova stressed that the adoption of this draft gives the US practically complete freedom to legitimize its actions in a similar way to agreements related to international security and strategic stability issues that provide US interests. .

He reminded that Russia will soon present its draft to the Security Council after vetoing the US and Japanese resolution on not deploying nuclear weapons in space.

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