MOSCOW. March 17 (Interfax) - Planned Russian-Chinese cooperation on lunar research is open to international participants, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said.
"Russia and China's Moon plans are open to broad international participation. This isn't about confrontation, but about cooperation in doing research on the Moon," Rogozin said on Telegram on Monday.
Rogozin was reacting to an article published by Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, who said that the two countries' lunar agreement was "yet another sign that Moscow and Beijing are drawing closer into a de facto alliance against the West."
"Not so," Rogozin said.
On March 9, Roscosmos said that Russia and China had signed a memorandum to create an international scientific lunar station.
On February 12, it was reported that the Russian government had accepted Roscosmos's proposal to sign the memorandum. A resolution to that effect was signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin.