Russia is concerned that some countries have started developing space strike systems which pose serious threat to global security, Vladimir Yermakov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 10th October, 2018) Russia is concerned that some countries have started developing space strike systems which pose serious threat to global security, Vladimir Yermakov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department for Nonproliferation and Arms Control, said on Wednesday.
Yermakov spoke before the First Committee of the 73th UNGA session.
"We follow with concern how some States gradually start carrying out their plans on the production and placement in the near-Earth orbit of strike space systems. Their implementation threatens to unleash an arms race in outer space with the view of making it yet another arena for armed confrontation," Yermakov said in a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry's website.
The diplomat stressed that this could undermine international security and global stability and was therefore "absolutely unacceptable" for Moscow.
"We do not want to see humanity living once again in the expectation of another Armageddon, now in outer space, as it was the case within several decades after the US bombardment of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki when the threat of nuclear war sometimes seemed to be highly likely," Yermakov underlined.
He also stressed the need to elaborate a legally binding agreement for all spacefaring nations that would prohibit the placement of weapons in outer space.
