Peace on Earth and in Space...

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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Russia and China Make Space Arms Deal

At a disarmament conference in Geneva, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said world security would suffer if an arms race in space was not stopped. The draft treaty would prohibit the deployment of weapons in space and the use or threat of force against satellites or other craft, he said.

The United States has long opposed being bound by such
an agreement. Correspondents say tensions have increased in recent years over US plans for a new generation of missile shields. In particular, Moscow is opposed of the country's plans to build part of its new system in Poland and the Czech
Republic.

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It appears that through this new agreement they are trying to limit the US from having any weapons in outer space. Any buildup un weapons in outer space would only make violence worse. It could also trigger a massive arms race across the western world and countries such as; Russia and North Korea. These conditions would put the world into an extreme lockdown state, since at any time weapons could fire on the US or any where else in the world at any moment. This would further strain relations and cause many intense "battles'.

Whether peace is Russia's real purpose for this agreement is unclear. However it is probably best not to have any significant weapons in space.

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