The Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation: the EU force to oppose the draft ban weapons in space
Elizabeth Isakov. When voting on the UN General Assembly in early winter 2014 draft decision of the Russian Federation on "Deploy the first weapons in space" on the EU pressured, that they abstained from supporting the Russian proposal, said Last news Director for non-proliferation and arms control Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Mikhail Ulyanov.
" It is noteworthy that abstained from voting in the European Union. According to our information, many of them, what is called, "breaking hands" in order to provide such " collective valaisiana ". Because in reality, a Large number of countries in Western Europe, as far as we know, understand the danger of placing weapons in space and would be ready to counteract it, " he said.
according to him, in 2005 Russia and the EU had developed a joint road map, one element of which was to respect the importance of the prevention of an arms race in outer space.
"If our Western European countries and in truth moved away from this position, which I personally doubt, then, of course, we'll have to take it into account in future work, as well As among them the project of the EU Code of conduct in space," added the diplomat.
Ulyanov recalled that in early winter fundamentally against the Russian draft decision suggested US that, "apparently, want to keep" hands-free " in space, as well As among them in weapons purposes ". In addition, the document did not want to Express support for Ukraine and Georgia.
" Can "to congratulate" the Ukrainian and Georgian colleagues demonstrated that seems not very professional approach. If these countries wanted to Express their negative attitude to Russia's foreign policy, because we have bilateral disagreements, then it would be possible to find a more suitable occasion. And it so happened that they spoke
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