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US, Russia hold talks in Vienna on space security

US, Russia hold talks in Vienna on space security

Vienna, Jul 27(UNI) US and Russian officials held talks about space security in Vienna on Monday, after the United States and the United Kingdom accused Russia of having launched an anti-satellite weapon last week.
Monday's one-day dialogue, which had been planned for months, will be followed by three days of nuclear arms control talks between the two countries in the Austrian capital, Al Jazeera reported.
Christopher Ford, the US assistant secretary for international security, said at a news conference on Friday that "Moscow and Beijing have already turned space into a war-fighting domain".
The US is proposing rules for responsible behaviour in space, which would be modelled on existing rules of war that are based on the principles of proportionality and humanity, he said.
Russia and China on the other hand have been backing a rival effort that will ban weapons in outer space through an international treaty.
Ford said Washington is opposed to such a proposal because it would outlaw specific weapons systems that are difficult to define, rather than defining what types of actions in space are acceptable.
According to the US Space Command, Russia tested an anti-satellite weapon in mid-July, similar to a test the country conducted in 2017.
Moscow has rejected the accusation. The test merely involved a small "inspector satellite" that used specialised equipment to inspect a Russian space vehicle at close distance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.
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