United Nations (UN) countries should refuse to place any types of weapons in space. With such a warning performed. O. Deputy Director of the Department for non-proliferation and control of armaments of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Konstantin Vorontsov in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly. His words reports TASS.
“Special attention of UN members requires the perception of space near the countries as arena for conducting hostilities in connection with the implementation of one-sided installations for placing weapons in space,” the diplomat said. According to him, such “bets” are made due to the desire of individual countries to achieve military dominance “to the detriment of interests of all other participants in space activities.”
“from the UN member states are required to fix the understanding that weapons of any kind should not be placed in space,” the representative of the Foreign Ministry said.
previously became known that Russia will upgrade the space systems for the guidance of high-precision weapons and create high-elliptical and small navigation satellites of the GLONASS system.