The White House has rejected a joint Sino-Russian proposal for an international treaty to ban the deployment of weapons in outer space.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov presented the draft treaty to the UN-sponsored annual Geneva Disarmament Conference on Tuesday.
"Without preventing an arms race in space, international security will be wanting," Lavrov told the conference.
However, being critical of the Russian-Chinese initiative, especially following China's anti-satellite missile tests last year, the US rejected the new proposal.
"The US opposes the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit access to or use of space," said the White House spokeswoman Dana Perino on Tuesday.
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All Russia wants is for the world to live in peace in space, but the US won't give it too them. Russia and China recently set out to ban weapons in outer space. This is generally good since it shows that they don't want to start violence, but apparently the US feels that it is better if we don't ban weapons in space.
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