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Space Preservation Treaty – Wikipedia
Space Preservation Treaty
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The Space Preservation Treaty (SPT) is a proposed international treaty to ban space weapons. The Treaty would establish a peacekeeping agency to monitor outer space and enforce the ban on space-based weapons. Its companion, the Space Preservation Act, was introduced for the fourth time to the United States House of Representatives by Congressman Dennis Kucinich on May 18, 2005.
The Institute for Cooperation in Space, co-founded by Dr. Carol Rosin and Mr. Alfred Webre, initiated the Treaty. It has received support from over 274 NGOs and from various Canadian politicians, including Hon. Paul Hellyer, a former Minister of Defense, and Svend Robinson, a former Member of Parliament.
The Canadian government has called for a treaty banning space weapons. Many other governments such as China and Russia have also called for a ban of space weapons to prevent an arms race in outer space.
The United Kingdom government believed outer space controls were linked to ground based proliferation issues, and progress would be easier if each issue was approached separately on its merit rather than taking a comprehensive approach. The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty is an appropriate next step
Space Preservation Act
Space Preservation Act
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The Space Preservation Act was a series of four bills introduced to the United States House of Representative designed to “preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind.”[1] To achieve this end, the bills defined certain activities as being proscribed in space. Proscribed activities include placing weapons systems in space and creating land-based systems designed to destroy (or damage) objects in orbit.
Each of the four incarnations of this act have failed to make it out of committee. The latest bill (2005) progressed the farthest, perhaps because of the large number of co-sponsors (39). It failed to be voted out of either of the two subcommittees to which it was referred.
Continued at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Preservation_Act
4 Chinese J. Int’l L. 685
Chinese Journal of International Law
November, 2005
Practice and Document
*685 Position Paper of the People’s Republic of China on the United Nations
Reforms
Copyright © 2005 by Oxford University Press
– China opposes the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems, supports the strengthening of the current international non-proliferation regime and calls for the resolution of proliferation issues within the framework of international law by political and diplomatic means. Any non-proliferation measures should contribute to international and regional peace, security and stability. Like many other nations, China is not in favor of the interceptive measures taken by the Proliferation Security Initiative beyond the international law.
– The prevention of weaponization of outer space and any forms of arms race in outer space conduces to global strategic stability and promotes the process of arms control and disarmament. The international community should attach great importance to this and take vigorous and effective measures to forestall this danger. The Conference on Disarmament in Geneva should promptly set up an ad hoc committee for the negotiations and conclusion of relevant international legal instruments or work toward the objective of plugging the loopholes in the current legal regime of outer space and effectively preventing the weaponization of outer space and any forms of arms race in outer space.
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