RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 5, No. 72, Part I, 12 April 2001
PUTIN WARNS AGAINST WEAPONS IN OUTER SPACE. In a letter read by Deputy Prime Minister Ilya Klebanov to an international conference in Moscow on the peaceful use of outer space, President Putin said that "we have a duty to safeguard peace in outer space," because "the experience of international space activity shows the need for care in this field," Russian and Western agencies reported on 11 April. The meeting attracted 250 delegates from 104 countries, but neither the U.S. nor Britain was represented because the governments of those countries concluded that the Moscow session was intended to oppose U.S. plans to build a national missile defense (NMD) system, dpa reported. PG
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