Iran Press/ America: Washington hopes to promote norms of responsible behavior in outer space, the US assistant secretary of State for international security and nonproliferation, Christopher Ford, said, calling for greater stability, predictability, and crisis management tools, reported by Reuters.
A US State Department spokesman said the talks would take place Monday in Vienna.
Ford told reporters the United States believed Russia and China have already turned space into “a war-fighting domain,” noting the US Space Command has said it has evidence that Russia tested a space-based anti-satellite weapon on July 15.
“What they’re doing is signaling to the world that they’re able to destroy satellites in orbit with other satellites, it would appear. That is a very disturbing, provocative, dangerous and ill-advised thing for them to be doing,” Ford said.
“We hope that we can convey that message to them and work on a better way for countries to show appropriate restraint and responsible behavior in orbit because this is the sort of thing that could get out of hand and go very badly rather quickly in the future,” Ford added.
He declined to name who will lead the US team or to address whether US and Russian officials next week might discuss a possible replacement for the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which caps US and Russian deployed strategic nuclear weapons warheads at 1,550 each.
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