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VOA/Reuters: US Raises Suspicions About Russia's New Space Weapons
GENEVA — The United States voiced deep suspicion on Tuesday over Russia's pursuit of new space weapons, including a mobile laser system to destroy satellites in space, and the launch of a new inspector satellite which was acting in an "abnormal" way.
Russia's pursuit of counterspace capabilities was "disturbing", Yleem D.S. Poblete, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance, told the U.N.'s Conference on Disarmament which is discussing a new treaty to prevent an arms race in outer space.
A Russian delegate at the conference dismissed Poblete's remarks as unfounded and slanderous.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at the Geneva forum in February, said a priority was to prevent an arms race in outer space, in line with Russia's joint draft treaty with China presented a decade ago.
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Update: U.S. Worried by Russian Space Weapons Program (Newsweek)
WNU Editor: The Russian response has been this .... Russia open to talks with US on strategic weapons (The Hill).
