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Envoy: Outer space disarmament urged
(China Daily/Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-06-10 00:28
China yesterday appealed to all members of the Conference on Disarmament to
work to prevent an arms race in outer space.
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| This imaginary image shows a flying attacker which US may
develop for future outer space war.
[file] | "Recent developments concerning outer
space are worrisome and require urgent efforts to prevent an arms race in outer
space," Hu Xiaodi, ambassador on disarmament affairs for China, told a session
of the Conference on Disarmament, the international disarmament body.
Chinese and Russian delegations yesterday moved to clarify their position,
set out in a joint working paper tabled in 2002.
China and Russia stand for the negotiation of an international law
prohibiting the deployment of weapons in outer space, the paper said.
The clarification was made in response to other delegations' suggestions to
the working paper.
"We hope that this will help people pay more attention and give more thought
to the issue of preventing an arms race in outer space and serve as food for
thought for our negotiation of a relevant future legal instrument in the
Conference on Disarmament," Hu told the conference.
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