IVANOV: RUSSIA AGAINST DEPLOYING WEAPONS TO SPACE
RIA Novosti
KOSTROMA, April 13 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is categorically against deploying weapons to outer space, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told reporters Wednesday.
"We are flatly against the deployment of weapons in space," the minister said, commenting on a statement from Henry Obering, the head of the American BMD program, about the necessity of deploying weapons in space in view of new threats.
"I cannot understand how weapons, hypothetically deployed in space, can counter new threats like terrorism. But I can understand if reconnaissance or communication vehicles are deployed," Ivanov said.
Ivanov noted that this stance is nothing new and that Russia has made its positioning this case clear long ago.
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