BEIJING, February 19 The Chinese Foreign Ministry drew attention to Russia's position on the issue of placing weapons in space, said the office of the official representative of the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Earlier, The New York Times reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Munich Security Conference asked Foreign Ministers of China and India Wang Yi and Subrahmanyam Jaishankar to urge the leaders of their countries to dissuade Russian President Vladimir Putin from his alleged plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space. weapons.
“As for the situation you mentioned related to Russia, I noticed that Russia has already reacted,” the Foreign Ministry said China when asked to comment on the New York Times report.
Earlier, ABC, citing sources, reported that US legislators could have been told at a secret briefing about the Russian Federation’s alleged plans to “place nuclear weapons in space” for use against satellites. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday that the White House, by announcing a closed briefing on a “serious threat to national security,” is trying to push the US Congress to vote for a bill to allocate money to Ukraine.
Moscow has previously repeatedly pointed out that Russia, together with other countries, in particular China, stands for preventing an arms race in space and preserving it for peaceful purposes. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted earlier that the United States and its allies are taking steps to implement the installation of weapons in space and the use of outer space for combat operations not only for defensive purposes, they do not abandon positioning space as a new arena of rivalry and conflicts between states, but Russia and China are identified as the main opponents.
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