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[Regnum] The United States of America will introduce a resolution to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) early next week calling for the non-deployment of nuclear weapons in outer space. John Kirby, coordinator of strategic communications at the White House National Security Council, announced this on Thursday, April 4.
“We will bring this resolution to a vote in New York early next week,” Kirby said during the briefing.
The White House representative recalled that Washington's permanent representative to the international organization, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, announced last month the intention of the United States of America and Japan to submit a resolution on the non-placement of nuclear weapons in space to the UN Security Council for a vote.
John Kirby also noted that the American side is counting on the support of this document from the Russian side, since Russian President Vladimir Putin indicated the absence of intentions to deploy nuclear weapons in space.
As Regnum reported, on February 20, Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu, emphasized that Moscow has always been against the militarization of space, including against the deployment of nuclear weapons in low-Earth orbit. The head of state recalled that Russia does not do anything in space that other states do not do.
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