MOSCOW. June 29 (Interfax) - Russia and China have held consultations on security in space in Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"Moscow hosed another round of Russian-Chinese consultations in an interagency format on security in space," the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
The parties "exchanged their judgments on the situation in this field and highlighted the necessity of continuing close cooperation and active joint efforts toward the prevention of an arms race in outer space and the weaponization of space," it said.
The negotiators "stressed the importance of launching negotiations on a multilateral legally binding prevention of arms race in outer space instrument as soon as possible based on a Russian-Chinese draft treaty on the prevention of the deployment of weapons in outer space, the use of force, or the threat to use force with regard to space objects. They acknowledged the relevance of an international initiative on a political obligation not to deploy weapons in space first," it said.