Russian space agency says Trump paving way to seize other planets
The Russian space agency, Roscosmos, accused US President Donald Trump on Tuesday of creating a basis to take over other planets by signing an executive order outlining US policy on commercial mining in space.
The executive order which Roscosmos said damaged the scope for international cooperation in space, was signed on Monday.
It said the United States would seek to negotiate “joint statements and bilateral and multilateral arrangements with foreign states regarding safe and sustainable operations for the public and private recovery and use of space resources.”
It said US citizens should have the right to engage in such activity and that “outer space is a legally and physically unique domain of human activity, and the United States does not view it as a global commons.”
Roscosmos said the order put the United States at odds with the notion of space belonging to all humanity.
“Attempts to expropriate outer space and aggressive plans to actually seize territories of other planets hardly set the countries (on course for) fruitful cooperation,” its statement said.
Relations between Russia and the United States are at post-Cold War lows, but cooperation on space has continued despite an array of differences over everything from Ukraine to accusations of election meddling.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that “any kind of attempt to privatize space in one form or another — and I find it difficult to say now whether this can be seen as an attempt to privatize space — would be unacceptable.”
(Source: Reuters)
US, Israel after partitioning Muslim states to advance Tel Aviv’s regional domination: Iran
Senior US delegation in Syria for talks with HTS ‘terrorists’
US lawmakers call for end to military supply for Israel
‘Abhorrent’: Oxfam says only 12 trucks delivered aid in North Gaza since Oct.
VIDEO | Leader receives religious eulogists on Hazrat Fatima birth anniv.
Pope Francis slams Israel’s ‘machine-gunning’ of Gaza children
US hostage-taking of Iranian nationals violation of intl. law: Deputy FM
VIDEO | Carol Singers for Palestine on London’s Parliament Square
Ansarullah says ‘Israeli terrorists’ incapable of confronting Yemen, warns of secret weapons
VIDEO | Yemenis praise the military for its successful operations against Israel
VIDEO | Israel continues to bomb Gaza homes
PressTV NEWSLETTER
now
This makes it easy to access the Press TV website
