MOSCOW, May 28 (RIA Novosti) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov signed a joint statement on Wednesday with his Argentinian counterpart Hector Timerman, vowing that the two nations would never be the first to put weapons in outer space.
“Russia’s initiative continues to win over more and more supporters,” Sergei Lavrov said in a press conference on the heels of the meeting. “We hope that a corresponding multi-party resolution will be passed at this year’s session of the UN General Assembly.”
The statement came as a follow-up on a 2008 international draft agreement to ban the "weaponization of space." The Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space was first proposed by China and Russia in a bid to forestall the next stage of the global arms race.